John Barth and Postmodernism : Spatiality, Travel, Montage
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
ISBN-10
082046385X
ISBN-13
9780820463858
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 2nd, 2006
Print length
368 Pages
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748 grams
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16.10 x 23.60 x 2.90 cms
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -
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The series is designed to advance the publication of research pertaining to themes and motifs in literature. The studies cover cross-cultural patterns as well as the entire range of national literatures. They trace the development and use of themes and motifs over extended periods, elucidate the significance of specific themes or motifs for the formation of period styles, and analyze the unique structural function of themes and motifs.
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 art 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.
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