Currie M. (ed.) Metafiction

Routledge, 2013. — x, 251 p. — (Longman critical readers). — ISBN: 978-0-582-21292-3.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.General Editor's Preface
AcknowledgementsDefining Metafiction
Robert Scholes. Metafiction
Patricia Waugh. What is meta fiction and why are they saying such awful things about it?
Gerald Prince. Metanarrative signsHistoriographic Metafiction
Hutcheon. Historiographic metafiction
Susana Onega. British historiographic metafiction
Hayden White. The question of narrative in contemporary historical theoryThe Writer/Critic
David Lodge. The novel now
Jihn Barth. The literature of exhaustion
Umbero Eco. From Reflections on the Name of the RoseReadings of Metafiction
Larry McCaffery. The art of metafiction
Raymond A. Mazurek. Metafiction, the historical novel and Coover's The Public Burning
Frederick M. Holmes. The novel, illusion and reality: the paradox of omniscience in The French Lieutenant's Woman
Elizabeth Dipple. A novel which is a machine for generating interpretationsBibliography
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