Abstract
ABSTRACT Exploring Donald Barthelme's literary representations of architecture, this essay traces how the author manipulates architectural history as a means of critiquing modernism and contemporary culture. Despite frequent references to Barthelme's familial relationship to architecture, little has been studied about how this intimacy is encoded in his imaginative writings. Focusing on the short story collections Sixty Stories and Forty Stories, this essay considers the usefulness of architecture as an interart analogy for Barthelme's texts. Seizing on the theories of Fredric Jameson, I argue that Barthelme's works highlight popular displeasure with modernist orthodoxy by using strategies similar to early postmodern architecture.
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