Donald Barthelme’s The King: The Manifold Guises of (an) American(’s) Memory
Since The King (1990) transposes the Arthurian myth into World War II, this article first aims at analyzing the posthumous novel by Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) as an allohistory staging the meeting of history and memory, two somehow antithetical notions. It also argues that despite the extensive cu...
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Main Author: | Aurélie Delevallée |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA)
2017-04-01
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Series: | Les Cahiers de Framespa |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/4340 |
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