Barthelme, Donald (Vol. 115) - Carl D. Malmgren (essay date 1995)
Carl D. Malmgren (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Exhumation: The Dead Father," in Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism, edited by Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens, Rodopi, 1995, pp. 25-40.
[In the following essay, Malmgren presents a detailed, thorough examination of The Dead Father.]
PRETEXT: Our presentation consists of two kinds of commentaries:
LECT: Readings—descriptive, analytic, interpretive—of the Barthelmean corpus and the Barthelmean text.
IDIOLECT: Countertexts, in which Barthelme is unfair to Malmgren.
The autopsy itself unfolds in three stages, each with several reading operations, as follows:
I. The Barthelmean Corpus
1. Impure Text
2. Collage
3. Fragments
II. The Corpse of The Dead Father: Partial Anatomy
4. The Body
5. Blazon
6. The Mute Text
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