Interpreting radical metaphor in the experimental fictions of Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, and Kathy Acker

Introduction - the metaphoric narrative not waiting for Godot in America - the Beckett signature, Barthelme's narrative poetics (Snow White, the Dead Father, the King), Barthelme's metaphoric narratives Pynchon's asymmetrical four Acker's strategy of plagiarism situating the metaphoric narrative.