Book Description

Preliminary Material -- Is There a Metareferential Turn, and If So, How Can It Be Explained? -- Writing on the Writer's Block Metaization and/as Lack of Inspiration /Andreas Mahler -- Fantasy Fiction in Fantasy Fiction: Metareference in the Otherworld of the Faërie /Sonja Klimek -- Intermedial Metareference Index and Icon in William Gass's Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife /John Pier -- The Quest for Authenticity Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius between Fiction and Reality /Wolfgang Funk -- Metareference in Marianne Wiggins's Literary Photo-Text The Shadow Catcher and Other Novels Referring to the Photographic Medium /Christine Schwanecke -- Print Strikes Back Typographic Experimentation in Contemporary Fiction as a Contribution to the Metareferential Turn /Grzegorz Maziarczyk -- The Materiality of Books and TV House of Leaves and The Sopranos in a World of Formless Content and Media Competition /Alexander Starre -- 'Come on, Tell the Story. Describe his State of Mind' Metaization in Peter Nichols's Dramatic and Theatrical Vivisection A Piece of My Mind /Doris Mader -- Metascenography On the Metareferential Turn in Scenography /Pamela C. Scorzin -- On Modern Graffiti and Street Murals Metareferential Aspects of Writings and Paintings on Walls /Claus Clüver -- From Readymade to 'Meta2' Metareference in Appropriation Art /Katharina Bantleon -- Deconstructing Essentialism and Revising Historiography The Function of Metareference in Black British Filmmaking /Dagmar Brunow -- Metahorror Sequels, 'The Rules', and the Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Horror Cinema /Nicholas de Villiers -- Starring Porn Metareference in Straight Pornographic Feature Films /Michael Fuchs -- 'Metatelevision' The Popularization of Metareferential Strategies in the Context of Italian Television /Irina O. Rajewsky -- The (Meta-)Metareferential Turn in Animation /Erwin Feyersinger -- “The Stuff You May Have Missed” Art, Film and Metareference in The Simpsons /Henry Keazor -- Metareference in Operatic Performance The Case of Katharina Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg /Walter Bernhart -- Making Sense of the Metareferential Momentum in Contemporary Popular Songs /Martin Butler -- Goodbye 20th Century Sonic Youth, John Cage's 'Number Pieces' and the Long Farewell to the Avant-Garde /Tobias Janz -- “This Strip Doesn't Have a Fourth Wall” Webcomics and the Metareferential Turn /Jeff Thoss -- 'Metadesign' A 'Mythological' Approach to Self-Reference in Consumer Culture /Roy Sommer -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.