Donald Barthelme

List of contents

General Editors’ Preface. Preface and Acknowledgements. A Note on the Texts. 1. Donald Barthelme in the Laboratory of Discourse 2. Barthelme’s Art of Displacement 3. Barthelme and the Eclipse of the Subject 4. Barthelme’s Codes of Transaction 5. Barthelme in the Art Gallery 6. Barthelme and the Escherian Perception. Notes. Bibliography.

About the author

Maurice Couturier, Regis Durand

Summary

In the early 1980s Donald Barthelme was widely recognized in the United States as one of the major figures in contemporary postmodernism, a key and central experimental writer. In this study, originally published in 1982, two leading critics present Donald Barthelme’s work in its most radical and innovative aspects.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Couturier, Maurice Durand Couturier, Couturier Maurice, Regis Durand, Régis Durand, Durand Regis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780367343569
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34356-9
• No. of pages: 82
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Modern Fiction
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000