TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berndt Clavier
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - John Barth and Postmodernism
T2  - Spatiality, Travel, Montage
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1101995
N2  - 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.
KW  - Critical Theory, Barth, John, Postmoderne, American Literature, Literary Theory, Travel Lliterature, Postmodernism, Literary Criticism
LA  - English
ER  -