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Author | : Larry McCaffery |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2010-10-12 |
Genre | : 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 | : Mark Currie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : 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 | : June Schlueter |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Characters and characteristics in literature |
ISBN | : 9780231047524 |
Author | : Bryan Stanley Johnson |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811209540 |
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.
Author | : Patricia Waugh |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1136493891 |
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Gregory W. Dobrov |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, Ancient |
ISBN | : 0195116585 |
"The book should be of particular interest to those working in Greek tragedy and comedy and classical literary theory."--Jacket.
Author | : Madelyn Jablon |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : 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 | : John N. Duvall |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : 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 | : Robert C. Spires |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813188148 |
The term metafiction invaded the vocabulary of literary criticism around 1970, yet the textual strategies involved in turning fiction back onto itself can be traced through several centuries. In this theoretical/critical study Robert C. Spires examines the nature of metafiction and chronicles its evolution in Spain from the time of Cervantes to the 1970s, when the obsession with novelistic self-commentary culminated in an important literary movement. The critical portions of this study focus primarily on twentieth-century works. Included are analyses of Unamuno's Niebla, Jarnés's Locura y muerte de nadie and La novia del viento, Torrente Ballester's Don Juan, Cunquiero's Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes, and three novels from the "self-referential" movement of the 1970s, Juan Goytisolo's Juan sin Tierra, Luis Goytisolo's La colera de Aquiles, and Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás. Seeking a stronger theoretical basis for his critical readings, Spires offers a sharpened definition of the term metafiction. The mode arises, he declares, through an intentional violation of the boundaries that normally separate the worlds of the author, the fiction, and the reader. Building on theoretical foundations laid by Frye, Scholes, Genette, and others, Spires also proposes a literary paradigm that places metafiction in a position intermediate between fiction and literary theory. These theoretical formulations place Spires's book in the forefront of critical thought. At the same time, his full-scale analyses of Spanish metafictional works will be welcomed by Hispanists and other students of world literature.
Author | : Michael Cisco |
Publisher | : Lazy Fascist Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781621052128 |
A living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.