Abstract
The present paper analyzes the multi-intertextuality strategy employed in Donald Barthelme’s postmodern writing. Intertextuality between text and reality, intertextuality between text and original text, intertextuality between text creation and text critique are analyzed respectively in detail. Through the analysis, the paper reaches its conclusion that as a responsible humanist and writer, Barthelme recreates a new reality in his text which is a proper comment on the reality he lives in by using his multi-intertextuality strategy.
Highlights
Donald Barthelme is one of the most influential American postmodern writers
The paper reaches its conclusion that as a responsible humanist and writer, Barthelme recreates a new reality in his text which is a proper comment on the reality he lives in by using his multi-intertextuality strategy
Native critic Li Yuping gives a full explanation of intertextuality employed in Barthelme’s Snow White [1]. Other critics such as Zhang Man and Chen Junsong focus on parody, a writing strategy with intertextual features [2,3]
Summary
Donald Barthelme is one of the most influential American postmodern writers. Native critics mostly explore Barthelme’s postmodern text from the angle of non-linear narration, fragment and collage principle, parody, play on language etc. Native critic Li Yuping gives a full explanation of intertextuality employed in Barthelme’s Snow White [1]. Other critics such as Zhang Man and Chen Junsong focus on parody, a writing strategy with intertextual features [2,3]. Many critics have not been fully aware that as a writing strategy adopted by Barthelme, intertextuality aims to reveal and comment on the reality of the era the writer lived in
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