Metafiction in American Short Stories - Readers' Perception of Language and Symbols in Shattered Realities.

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Koblenz-Landau (Fachbereich 2, Institut für Anglistik), course: American Short Fiction, language: English, abstract: Reading Donald Barthelme’s short story “The Glass Mountain” is a most puzzling and mind-boggling experience for anybody who has not done research on the au...