Author: Donald Barthelme
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781585678280
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings.
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine
Author: Donald Barthelme
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781585678280
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781585678280
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Relates Matilda's adventures in the Chinese house that grew in her back yard. Collage illustrations made from nineteenth-century engravings.
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, Or, The Hithering Thithering Djinn
The Dead Father
Author: Donald Barthelme
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466857307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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."
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466857307
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
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."
Hiding Man
Author: Tracy Daugherty
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781429965262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
In the 1960s Donald Barthelme came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement. He was a fixture at the New Yorker, publishing more than 100 short stories, including such masterpieces as "Me and Miss Mandible," the tale of a thirty-five-year-old sent to elementary school by clerical error, and "A Shower of Gold," in which a sculptor agrees to appear on the existentialist game show Who Am I? He had a dynamic relationship with his father that influenced much of his fiction. He worked as an editor, a designer, a curator, a news reporter, and a teacher. He was at the forefront of literary Greenwich Village which saw him develop lasting friendships with Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, Grace Paley, and Norman Mailer. Married four times, he had a volatile private life. He died of cancer in 1989. The recipient of many prestigious literary awards, he is best remembered for the classic novels Snow White, The Dead Father, and many short stories, all of which remain in print today. Hiding Man is the first biography of Donald Barthelme, and it is nothing short of a masterpiece.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9781429965262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
In the 1960s Donald Barthelme came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement. He was a fixture at the New Yorker, publishing more than 100 short stories, including such masterpieces as "Me and Miss Mandible," the tale of a thirty-five-year-old sent to elementary school by clerical error, and "A Shower of Gold," in which a sculptor agrees to appear on the existentialist game show Who Am I? He had a dynamic relationship with his father that influenced much of his fiction. He worked as an editor, a designer, a curator, a news reporter, and a teacher. He was at the forefront of literary Greenwich Village which saw him develop lasting friendships with Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, Grace Paley, and Norman Mailer. Married four times, he had a volatile private life. He died of cancer in 1989. The recipient of many prestigious literary awards, he is best remembered for the classic novels Snow White, The Dead Father, and many short stories, all of which remain in print today. Hiding Man is the first biography of Donald Barthelme, and it is nothing short of a masterpiece.
A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410349705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410349705
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
The Avant-garde and American Postmodernity
Author:
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034909
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An evaluation that tracks American culture's shift from modernism into postmodernism
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034909
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An evaluation that tracks American culture's shift from modernism into postmodernism
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Author: Mihai Nadin
Publisher: Dresden University Press
ISBN: 3931828387
Category : Computers and literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Phenomena related to the transition from a literacy-dominated civilization to one of various means of expression and communication are at the center of his book. The fall of totalitarian regimes, the current structural difficulties of the European Community, the burden of state bureaucracies, the world-wide effort of re-engineering, and the global economy are part of the bigger picture of a necessary development.
Publisher: Dresden University Press
ISBN: 3931828387
Category : Computers and literacy
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Phenomena related to the transition from a literacy-dominated civilization to one of various means of expression and communication are at the center of his book. The fall of totalitarian regimes, the current structural difficulties of the European Community, the burden of state bureaucracies, the world-wide effort of re-engineering, and the global economy are part of the bigger picture of a necessary development.
A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "The King of Jazz"
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410388522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "The King of Jazz", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410388522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "The King of Jazz", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Humanities
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Humanistic
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Humanistic
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The King
Author: Donald Barthelme
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Clever anachronisms and mock-Arthurian diction mark this madcap, absurdist 20th-century parable, in which Barthelme transposes King Arthur and his Round Table to 1940s England under Nazi bombardment. --Publisher.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564784131
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Clever anachronisms and mock-Arthurian diction mark this madcap, absurdist 20th-century parable, in which Barthelme transposes King Arthur and his Round Table to 1940s England under Nazi bombardment. --Publisher.