10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METAFICTION»
Discover the use of
metafiction in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
metafiction and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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.
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Black
Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African American ...
Black Metafiction analyzes and evaluates these theories, comparing work by scholars of comparative, Anglo-American, and African American literature.
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Kurt VonNegut's Slaughterhouse-Five As Historiographic ...
I will take a closer look at the narrative frame and especially the concept of time Vonnegut used in the novel. But how is history represented in Slaughterhouse-Fi
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Feminist
Metafiction and the Evolution of the British Novel
''This is the best book of feminist narratology to appear in the past ten years.
Joan Douglas Peters, 2002
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The Last Soviet Avant-Garde: OBERIU - Fact, Fiction,
Metafiction
This is a comprehensive study of a group of avant-garde Soviet writers active in Leningrad in the 1920s and 1930s who styled themselves OBERIU, 'The Association for Real Art'.
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Metafiction in J.M. Coetzee's 'Foe'
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Vienna (Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: Introductory Seminar Literature (year 2), 32 entries ...
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Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered
Metafiction
This book uses a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the role of biographies and autobiographies in the construction of historical narratives.
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Children of the Mind: An Extended
Metafiction
Children of the Mind details a society in which thought is rationed, the imagination is considered a disease, and dreaming is considered a subversive activity.
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Forms and Functions of
Metafiction
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”.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METAFICTION»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
metafiction is used in the context of the following news items.
Remembering EL Doctorow, the conscience of the USA
Doctorow's work has, not surprisingly, been labeled “historiographic metafiction” or “postmodern”, given his interest in narrative form and the ... «The Conversation AU, Jul 15»
Review: Woody Allen's 'Irrational Man' Explores Life's Randomness
... and in the way in which it seems to speak to his personal life, has come to resemble a weird metafiction. In his short story “The Book of Sand,” ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
DC Comics History: Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys
In a mind-bending bit of metafiction, Tommy and his friend Tubby are reading the first issue of Sensation Comics, and get inspired by the scene ... «Comic Book Bin, Jul 15»
The Long Con in 'The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water'
The entire film pulls the metafiction card as often as possible. In fact the entire film feels a lot like a team of funny writers sat around and said ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
'The Festival of Insignificance,' by Milan Kundera
In this sly metafiction, the author explicitly exposes his role. In order to get his characters to analyze whether Josef Stalin's delight in telling ... «SFGate, Jul 15»
Unpacking the Transphobia in 'Airboy' #2
It's metafiction, but speaking as someone whose shelves groan under the weight of Grant Morrison and Terry Pratchett, there's nothing wrong ... «ComicsAlliance, Jul 15»
Review: MTV's 'Scream' feels like a retro take on film franchise
For younger viewers just discovering irony and metafiction and possibly not acquainted with the screen originals, which have done them to ... «Duluth News Tribune, Jul 15»
Film Review: The Face of an Angel
Winterbottom himself might prefer a word like “cerebral,” but this clumsy exercise in metafiction is cerebral only in the sense that it will leave you ... «Consequence of Sound, Jun 15»
There Go The Neighborhoods
On one level, it's a self-referential technique known as metafiction. On another, it's an amusing literary trick that signals that more storytelling ... «The Jewish Week, Jun 15»
Poo-tee-weet?
... Billy Pilgrim, is "unstuck in time," and its author, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., wrote his novel as metafiction—a book aware of itself—and reserved the ... «TheStranger.com, Jun 15»
