82 Pages
by Routledge

82 Pages
by Routledge

82 Pages
by Routledge

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. Their essay combines textual analysis, critical theory and cultural awareness and... Read more

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.

Biography

Maurice Couturier, Regis Durand