Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
Author : Donald Barthelme
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 10,52 MB
Release : 1973
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Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher :
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Experimental fiction, American
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Author : Frank Smith
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
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Smith dismantles the shoddy science undergirding direct, intensive, and early phonics training.
Author : Jerome Klinkowitz
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 1991-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822311522
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 artistic method, is his widely acknowledged masterpiece, The Dead Father. In turning to this pivotal work, as well as to Barthelme’s short stories and other novels, Klinkowitz explores the way in which Barthelme reinvented the tools of narration, characterization, and thematics at a time when fictive techniques were largely believed to be exhausted. Klinkowitz, who was one of the first scholars to study Barthelme’s work and became its definitive bibliographer, situates Barthelme’s life and work within a broad spectrum of influences and affinities. A consideration of developments in painting and sculpture, for example, as well as those of contemporaneous fiction, contribute to Klinkowitz’s analysis. This astute reading will provide great insight for readers, writers, and critics of contemporary American fiction seeking explanations and justifications of Barthelme’s critical importance in the literature of our times.
Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466857307
The Dead Father is a gargantuan half-dead, half-alive, part mechanical, wise, vain, powerful being who still has hopes for himself--even while he is being dragged by means of a cable toward a mysterious goal. In this extraordinary novel, marked by the imaginative use of language that influenced a generation of fiction writers, Donald Barthelme offered a glimpse into his fictional universe. As Donald Antrim writes in his introduction, "Reading The Dead Father, one has the sense that its author enjoys an almost complete artistic freedom . . . a permission to reshape, misrepresent, or even ignore the world as we find it . . . Laughing along with its author, we escape anxiety and feel alive."
Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 1968-01
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ISBN : 9780374281762
Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1598536966
The definitive collection of a twentieth-century master of the short story, whose unforgettable inventions revolutionized the form The short stories of Donald Barthelme, revered by the likes of Thomas Pynchon and George Saunders, are gems of invention and pathos that have dazzled and delighted readers since the 1960s. Here, for the first time, these essential stories are preserved as they were published in Barthelme's original collections, beginning with Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964), a book that made a generation of readers sit up and take notice. Collected Stories also includes the work that appeared for the first time in Barthelme's two retrospective anthologies, Sixty and Forty, as well as a selection of uncollected stories. Discover, in this comprehensive gathering, Barthelme's unique approach to fiction, his upside-down worlds that are nonetheless grounded in fundamental human truths, his scrambled visions of history that yield unexpected insights, and his genius for dialogue, parody, and collage, which was for him "the central principle of all art in the twentieth century." Engage with sophisticated works of fiction that, often in just the space of a few pages, wrest profundities out of what might first seem merely ephemeral, even trivial. And experience, along with Barthelme's imaginative and frequently subversive ideas, the pleasures of a consummate stylist whose sentences are worth marveling at and savoring. Introduced with a sharp and discerning essay by editor Charles McGrath and annotation that clarifies Barthelme's freewheeling, wide-ranging allusions, the landmark volume is a desert-island edition for fans and the ideal introduction to new readers eager to find out why, as Dave Eggers writes, Barthelme's "every sentence ... makes me want to stop and write something of my own. He fires all of my synapses and connects them in new ways."
Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
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" ... Donald Barthelme's new collection ... takes us from New York to Tokyo to Copenhagen to Barcelona to Paris to the Radiant City of Le Corbusier, balancing twelve of his widely celebrated short stories against an equal number of brief visionary texts, new in his work, that provide a lovely, haunting counterpoint"--From dust jacket.
Author : Dave Eggers
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014138932X
This collection of pithy, brilliantly acerbic pieces is a companion to Sixty Stories, Barthelme's earlier retrospective volume. Barthelme spotlights the idiosyncratic, haughty, sometimes downright ludicrous behavior of human beings, but it is style rather than content which takes precedence.
Author : Donald Barthelme
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 27,73 MB
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1439144400
“Eccentric, dazzling…the literary conversation piece of the year.” –San Francisco Chronicle An American short story writer and novelist acclaimed for his playful, postmodern style of short fiction, Barthelme’s first novel, Snow White, is a countercultural, experimental reconstruction of the Disney version of the traditional fairytale. In Barthelme’s modern day world, Snow White is a seductive woman waiting for her prince to return to New York. Pushing the bounds of fiction and form, Barthelme subverts the classic tale, prompting The New York Times to call him “a splendid practitioner at the peak of his power” and inspiring a new generation of authors including Charles Baxter, Dave Eggers, and David Gates.