Author : Patricia Waugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136493891
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mark Currie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317893867
Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of writing; and secondly effect: an emphasis on the playing with styles and forms, resulting from an enhanced self-consciousness and awareness of the elusiveness of meaning and the limitations of the realist form. Dr Currie's volume examines first the two components of metafiction, with practical illustrations from the work of such writers as Derrida and Foucault. A final section then provides the view of metafiction as seen by metafictional writers themselves.
Author : Madelyn Jablon
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780877456568
Examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. The book points to the shortcomings of theories of metafiction founded on studies of Anglo-American literature. It analyzes and evaluates these theories, providing a model for the evaluation of other Eurocentric theories.
Author : Larry McCaffery
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822976358
McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term "metafiction" here refers to a strain in American writing where the self-concious approach to the art of fiction-making is a commentary on the nature of meaning itself.
Author : Michael Cisco
Publisher : Lazy Fascist Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2015-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781621052128
A living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.
Author : A. Heilmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 023020628X
This collection examines the dynamic experimentation of contemporary women writers from North America, Australia, and the UK. Blurring the dichotomies of the popular and the literary, the fictional and the factual, the essays assembled here offer new approaches to reading contemporary women fiction writers' reconfigurations of history.
Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521196310
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Author : Mark Currie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317893875
Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of writing; and secondly effect: an emphasis on the playing with styles and forms, resulting from an enhanced self-consciousness and awareness of the elusiveness of meaning and the limitations of the realist form. Dr Currie's volume examines first the two components of metafiction, with practical illustrations from the work of such writers as Derrida and Foucault. A final section then provides the view of metafiction as seen by metafictional writers themselves.
Author : Robert Scholes
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Yaël Schlick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 100068525X
Metafiction explores the great variety and effects of this popular genre and style, variously defined as a type of literature that philosophically questions itself, that repudiates the conventions of literary realism, that questions the relationship between fiction and reality, or that lies at the border between fiction and non-fiction. Yaël Schlick surveys a wide range of metafictional writings by diverse authors, with particular focus on the contemporary period. This book asks not only what metafiction is but also what it can do, examining metafictional narratives' usefulness for exploring the role of art in society, its role in conceptualizing the figure of author and the reader of fiction, its investigation and playfulness with respect to language and linguistic conventions, and its troubling of the boundaries between fact and fiction in historiographic metafiction, autofiction, and autotheory. Metafiction is an engaging and accessible introduction to a pervasive and influential form and concept in literary studies, and will be of use to all students of literary studies requiring a depth of knowledge in the subject.
