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Donald Barthelme : an exhibition / Jerome Klinkowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klinkowitz, Jerome.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barthelme, Donald--Criticism and interpretation.
- Barthelme, Donald.
- Experimental fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Experimental fiction, American.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) is regarded as one of the most imitated and influential American fiction writers since the early 1960s. In Donald Barthelme: An Exhibition, Jerome Klinkowitz presents both an appreciation and a comprehensive examination of the life work of this pathbreaking contemporary writer. A blend of close reading, biography, and theory, this retrospective-informed by Klinkowitz's expert command of postmodern American fiction-contributes significantly to a new understanding of Barthelme's work.Klinkowitz argues that the central piece in the Barthelme canon, and the key to his
- Contents:
- Prologue With Don in the Village
- Early Fiction as Technique
- Early Fiction as Theme
- Toward Sustained Narrative Systems
- The Novels
- Later Fiction
- Epilogue The Text in the Village.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-142) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612904189
- 9781282904187
- 1282904183
- 9780822381693
- 0822381699
- OCLC:
- 191222198
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