Contemporary Metafiction
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Contemporary Metafiction
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Author : Rüdiger Imhof
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Contemporary Metafiction written by Rüdiger Imhof and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with American fiction categories.
Metafictions
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Author : Wenche Ommundsen
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne University
Release Date : 1993
Metafictions written by Wenche Ommundsen and has been published by Melbourne University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
This book offers an introduction to a literary phenomenon lauded by academic readers and critics but which many find impenetrable or exasperating: metafiction, the fiction that is about writing fiction.
Metafiction And Metahistory In Contemporary Women S Writing
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Author : A. Heilmann
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-04-11
Metafiction And Metahistory In Contemporary Women S Writing written by A. Heilmann and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-11 with Fiction categories.
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.
Truth And Metafiction
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Author : Josh Toth
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2020-12-10
Truth And Metafiction written by Josh Toth and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism. Yet, if (as is now widely assumed) postmodernism has finally run its course, how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media? Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism has passed, or has the function of metafiction somehow changed? To answer these questions, Josh Toth considers a broad range of recent metafictional texts-bywriters such as George Saunders and Jennifer Egan and directors such as Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino. At the same time, he traverses a diffuse theoretical landscape: from the rise of various new materialisms (in philosophy) and the turn to affect (in literary criticism) to the seemingly endless efforts to name postmodernism's ostensible successor. Ultimately, Toth argues that much contemporary metafiction moves beyond postmodern skepticism to reassert the possibility of making true claims about real things. Capable of combating a “post-truth” crisis, such forms assert or assume a kind of Hegelian plasticity; they actively and persistently confront the trauma of what is infinitely mutable, or perpetually other. What is outside or before a given representation is confirmed and endured as that which exceeds the instance of its capture. The truth is thereby renewed; neither denied nor simply assumed, it is approached as ethically as possible. Its plasticity is grasped because the grasp, the form of its narrative apprehension, lets slip.
Forms And Functions Of Metafiction
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Author : Theresia Knuth
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2005-11-09
Forms And Functions Of Metafiction written by Theresia Knuth and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin, course: Modern and Contemporary Short Stories, language: English, abstract: The Greek prepositionμet?(“meta”), which in this context takes on the meaning of “about”, and the literary term “fiction”, which refers to literary work based on imagination, together constitute the term “metafiction”. From the start metafiction has been described as fiction “somehow about fiction itself”. First mentioned at the end of the 1950s, it was further defined throughout the following three decades. Although the term has only been coined in the second half of the 20th century, it is not new to literature. The fiction described can already be found in much older works, such as Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”, Cervantes’ “Don Quixote” and massively in Laurence Sterne’s “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”. Today, metafiction is also common in other creative genres and is primarily associated with postmodernism, which came up during the 1960s. Selfreflexive narrators especially appear in works of postmodern writers such as Vladimir Nabokov, John Fowles, B.S. Johnson, Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, or Julian Barnes. The typically metafictional “Selbstbespiegeln der Literatur im Verein mit dem ständigen illusionsbrechenden Hervorkehren[der]Fiktionalität” represents an alternative to the continuation of realism, which, as postmodernist writers believe, has become impossible. Critics of metafiction deny it the ability to portray the real world because of its “decadent forms of self-absorption”. Behind the paramount purpose of metafiction, which is to lay bare its own status as fiction, a variety of metafictional devices emerged. Although most commonly found in novels, such devices are not unusual in short stories, as this seminar paper attempts to show.
Metafiction
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Author : Patricia Waugh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Metafiction written by Patricia Waugh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Metafiction
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Author : Mark Currie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Metafiction written by Mark Currie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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
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Author : Patricia Waugh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
Metafiction written by Patricia Waugh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Literary Collections categories.
Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to retain and regain a wide readership by drawing on the themes and preoccupations of these forms. Making use of contemporary fiction by such writers as Fowles, Borges, Spark, Barthelme, Brautigan, Vonnegut and Barth, and drawing on Russian Formalist theories of literary evolution, the book argues that metafiction uses parody along with popular genres and non-literary forms as a way not only of exposing the inadequate and obsolescent conventions of the classic novel, but of stuggesting the lines along which fiction might develop in the future.
The Meaning Of Metafiction
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Author : Inger Christensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Meaning Of Metafiction written by Inger Christensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
In 20th century literature, a kind of fiction has come much to the fore where the narrator discusses his own craft and frequently addresses the reader. However, Laurence Sterneʼs Tristram Shandy may serve as a striking example of the fact that metafiction is no modern phenomenon. Metafiction has been criticized for solipsism and regarded as a final proof of ʼthe novel no longer novelʼ. Discussing works of three contemporary novelists, Nobokov, Barth and Beckett, and Sterneʼs eighteenth century novel, the author argues that with their tricks, parodies and humour (humor) the metafictionists are concerned with a central human problem: communication. Should literature entertain, come up with ideas about the meaning of existence or give the reader a purely aesthetic experience? The four novelists examined in this study give different and rather exciting answers to these questions and to the problem of bringing their intentions across to the reader. Book cover.
Historiographic Metafiction In Modern American And Canadian Literature
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Author : Bernd Engler
language : en
Publisher: Paderborn [Germany] : F. Schöningh
Release Date : 1994
Historiographic Metafiction In Modern American And Canadian Literature written by Bernd Engler and has been published by Paderborn [Germany] : F. Schöningh this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with American fiction categories.