Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme's Postmodern Fairy Tales
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Universidad de Salamanca
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- Brugué, Lydia (ed. lit.)
- llompart, Auba (ed. lit.)
Éditorial: Brill
ISBN: 9789004418981
Année de publication: 2020
Pages: 326-336
Type: Chapitre d'ouvrage
Résumé
Donald Barthelme is drawn to the fertile irrationality of the fairy tale as it allows him to scrutinize unconventional narrative paths and challenge mimetic modes of representation. This chapter explores the techniques employed by Barthelme in his fairy-tale rewritings to break the mirror posed to society into multiple pieces so as to offer polyhedral visions of postmodernity and expose the mechanics of fiction-writing. A further aim is to analyze how avant-garde designs are constructed out of verbal and cultural debris to create worlds of fantasy that interrogate stale literary conventions and force the reader to transit entangled literary forests and construct meaning out of irresolution and multiplicity.