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In Contrast To Recent Attempts To Distinguish Postmodernism From Poststructuralism, Death In The Funhouse Finds Deep Complicity Between The Two Discourses. This Book Looks Comprehensively At The Middle And Late Texts Of John Barth To Demonstrate The Complexity Of The Postmodern Author - And The Never-ending Quest For Pleasure.--jacket. Introduction: Barthes By Barth -- Pt. 1. A Poststructuralist Aesthetic -- 1. Authoreality -- 2. Jouissance -- Pt. 2. A Postmodern Response -- 3. The Author As Proteus: John Barth And The Friday Book -- 4. Barth In The Pleasurehouse: The Middle Texts -- 5. The Author At Sea: Pleasure, Postmodernism And The Late Texts. Alan Lindsay. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [171]-176) And Index. \"In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, Death in the FUNhouse finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the postmodern author - and the never-ending quest for pleasure.\"--Jacket

Author

ALAN LINDSAY, Alan G. Lindsay

Publisher

P. Lang, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820425474

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction