Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning | Essays and Criticism

  • Making Connections: Collage as Structure in Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning

    Richard Henry is an Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Potsdam. In the following essay, he discusses the collage structure of Barthelme's story "Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning'' and argues that it comments on the fictional nature of Kennedy's image.

  • The Marivaudian Being

    In the following essay, Trachtenberg discusses the "Marivaudian being" as it relates to "Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning.'' The ''Marivaudian being" is a term invented by the eighteenth-century French dramatist Pierre Marivaux.

  • An Example of Metafiction

    In the following essay, Molesworth describes "Robert Kennedy Saved from Drowning" as an example of metafiction, a work whose theme is the conventions of writing itself.