John Barth and postmodernism
Subtitle: spatiality, travel, montage
By: Berndt Clavier.
Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature,; v. 83
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Barth, John, 1930- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Space and time in literature.; Travel in literature.
Description: "John Barth's eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of "exhaustion" and subsequent "replenishment," leaving his writing relatively untouched by theories of postmodernism in general. This book changes that by focusing on the relationship between Barth's aesthetic and the ideology critique of the historical avant-gardes, which were the first to mobilize are against itself and its institutional practices and demands. Examining Barth's metafictional parodies in the light of theories of space and subjectivity, Clavier engages the question of ideology critique in postmodernism by offering the montage as a possible model for understanding Barth's fiction. In such a light, postmodernism may well be perceived as a mimesis of reality, particularly a recognition of the collective nature of self and the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.