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Beschreibung
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 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.
Über den Autor
Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary University of London.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Defining Metafiction 1. Metafiction 2. What is metafiction and why are they saying such awful things about it? 3. Metanarrative signs Part Two: Historiographic Metafiction 4. Historiographic metafiction 5. British historiographic metafiction 6. The question of narrative in contemporary historical theory Part Three: The writer/critic 7. The novel now 8. The literature of exhaustion 9. From Reflections on the "Name of the Rose" Part Four: Readings of Metafiction [...] art of metafiction 11. Metafiction, the historical novel and Coover's "The Public Burning" 12. The Novel, illusion and reality: the paradox of omniscience in "The French Lieutenant's Women" 13. A novel which is a machine for generating interpretations Bibliography Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780582212923
ISBN-10: 0582212928
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Currie, Mark
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Mark Currie
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.1995
Gewicht: 0,334 kg
Artikel-ID: 128447009