Experimentalism and Self-Reflexivity in Donald Barthelme's Postmodern Fairy Tales

  1. González Rddríguez, María Luisa 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Libro:
Contemporary Fairy-Tale Magic: Subverting Gender and Genre
  1. Brugué, Lydia (ed. lit.)
  2. llompart, Auba (ed. lit.)

Editorial: Brill

ISBN: 9789004418981

Año de publicación: 2020

Páginas: 326-336

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

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Resumen

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.

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