10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METAFICTIONIST»
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metafictionist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
metafictionist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Modernism and Tradition in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time: A ...
This is not to make of Hemingway an early metafictionist, someone whose
primary interest in writing fictions is to belabor the question of their ontological
status. Such an abstract, self-referential conception of fiction would have bored
him.
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Narrating Postmodern Time and Space
In this way, "Model Readers" and their metafictionist authors collude to conceal
what reader and world could be but are not and forestall interrogation of and new
insight into the structures of reality. John Barth's loosely autobiographical Genie ...
3
The Metafictional Muse: The Works of Robert Coover, Donald ...
This is not merely the expression of a perverse sense of self-consciousness or
narcissism; instead, the metafictionist begins with the assumption that we are
forever locked within a world shaped by language and by subjective (i.e., fictional
) ...
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The Cambridge Companion to John Updike
Updike. as. historiographic. metafictionist. If A Month of Sundays represents
Updike's foray into postmodern metafiction,Memories oftheFordAdministration (
1992)takes another stepthat enables ustoseehisfictionasan important site to
refine ...
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From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of ...
And Elkin notes: “The Barth who takes himself seriously as a metafictionist is a
Barth who bores finally [...] later Barth ... danger of boredom, though he does not
take himself too seriously as a metafictionist, at least not in attitude. Preferring “
the ...
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Prophetic Remembrance: African American and Black South ...
Though Johnson stands as the emblematic Black postmodern metafictionist, the
other authors considered in this (and Jablon' s and Byerman' s) study
demonstrate a similar sensibility. 10 For example, Marc Steinberg is careful to
mention the ...
7
Mots D'Ordre: Disorder in Literary Worlds
In denying the mind's power to refer to the world, or, the world's power to directly
impinge on mind, the metafictionist faces a solipsism that is poor ground for the
determinations of redundancy as well as for the rhizomatic multiplicities of our ...
In an effort to save Nabokov from those who saw him mainly as a metafictionist,
Vladimir Alexandrov {Nabokov's Otherworld) relocated Nabokov's ghosts by
making of "other" and "world" one word and grounding Nabokov's ethics,
aesthetics, ...
Will Norman, Duncan White, 2009
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Teaching the Postmodern
Rather s/he takes on an active role, and 'does' the past, participates, questions,
and interrogates. In short, the project of the historiographic metafictionist is the
Foucauldian project of counter-memory: and they are both historical and political.
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In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel ...
Indeed, the ephemeral nature of any "given" universe constructed by a
metafictionist would happily accommodate one apocalyptic reordering after
another. The apocalypse would become, then, not so much the ultimate act of
history as the ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METAFICTIONIST»
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metafictionist is used in the context of the following news items.
It's OK to admit that HP Lovecraft was racist
Lovecraft is a beloved figure in pop culture, and an influence on everyone from the Argentinian metafictionist Jorge Luis Borges to the film ... «Salon, Sep 14»
How Italo Calvino Arrived at a New Ideal for Fiction
This is not, I think, the habitat of your average metafictionist. The usual way of putting the basic conundrum or strangeness of Calvino's career is ... «The New Republic, Jul 13»
'50/50' Star Joseph Gordon Levitt Talks Working With Seth Rogen …
It's about this girl, this young woman, who, on hitRECord she goes by the name The Metafictionist, and she had this really horrible experience ... «Huffington Post, Sep 11»
