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Postmodernism Isn't Scary: David Markson's Reader's Block

An hour's lecture on Markson's style and affect as it pertains to boundary-making and bending narrative possibility.

This is the second in my series of videos on major postmodernist novels, following up from Donald Barthelme’s Snow White.

If there’s a single paragraph in all of postmodernism that could define it, it might be the famous penultimate line for Reader’s Block, itself deceptively simple: "Nonlinear. Discontinuous. Collage-like. An assemblage."

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