Author: Mark Currie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Metafiction
Author: Mark Currie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317893867
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Metafiction
Author: Patricia Waugh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136493891
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136493891
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Metafictional Muse
Author: Larry McCaffery
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
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.
Black Metafiction
Author: Madelyn Jablon
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877456568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 9780877456568
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.
Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd
Author: Susana Onega Jaén
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571130068
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Providing detailed analysis of the recurrent structural and thematic traits in Peter Ackroyd's first nine novels, this work sets out to show how they grow out of the tension created by two apparently contradictory tendencies. These are, on the one hand, the metafictional tendency to blur the boundaries between story-telling and history, to enhance the linguistic component of writing, and to underline the constructedness of the world created in a way that aligns Ackroyd with other postmodernist writers of historiographic metafiction; and on the other, the attempt to achieve mythical closure, expressed, for example, in Ackroyd's fictional treatment of London as a mystic centre of power. This mythical element evinces the influence of high modernists such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, and links Ackroyd's work to transition-to-postmodern writers such as Lawrence Durrell, Maureen Duffy, Doris Lessing and John Fowles.
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571130068
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Providing detailed analysis of the recurrent structural and thematic traits in Peter Ackroyd's first nine novels, this work sets out to show how they grow out of the tension created by two apparently contradictory tendencies. These are, on the one hand, the metafictional tendency to blur the boundaries between story-telling and history, to enhance the linguistic component of writing, and to underline the constructedness of the world created in a way that aligns Ackroyd with other postmodernist writers of historiographic metafiction; and on the other, the attempt to achieve mythical closure, expressed, for example, in Ackroyd's fictional treatment of London as a mystic centre of power. This mythical element evinces the influence of high modernists such as Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, and links Ackroyd's work to transition-to-postmodern writers such as Lawrence Durrell, Maureen Duffy, Doris Lessing and John Fowles.
Fabulation and Metafiction
Author: Robert Scholes
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Marvelous Geometry
Author: Jessica Tiffin
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814335727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814335727
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Explores self-consciousness and metafictional awareness in modern fairy tale and its expression across literary fairy tale, popular fairy tale, and fairy-tale film.
Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women's Writing
Author: A. Heilmann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023020628X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023020628X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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.
Christie Malry's Own Double-entry
Author: Bryan Stanley Johnson
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A disaffected young man, Christie Malry, is a simple man who learns the principles of double-entry book-keeping while taking an evening class in accountancy and working in the local bank. He begins to apply these principles to his own life, revenging himself against society in an increasingly violent manner for perceived 'debits'. Debit: the unpleasantness of the bank manager is the first on an ever-growing list; Credit: scratching the façade of the office block. All accounts are settled in the most alarming way.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A disaffected young man, Christie Malry, is a simple man who learns the principles of double-entry book-keeping while taking an evening class in accountancy and working in the local bank. He begins to apply these principles to his own life, revenging himself against society in an increasingly violent manner for perceived 'debits'. Debit: the unpleasantness of the bank manager is the first on an ever-growing list; Credit: scratching the façade of the office block. All accounts are settled in the most alarming way.
Animal Money
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher: Lazy Fascist Press
ISBN: 9781621052128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.
Publisher: Lazy Fascist Press
ISBN: 9781621052128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.