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Title:

METAFICTION

By:

Mark Currie

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0582212928

ISBN 13:

9780582212923

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

13 July, 1995

Series:

Longman Critical Readers

Pages:

240

Description:

This text contains sections covering the definition of metafiction, historiographic metafiction and the writer and critic. It includes selected readings of metafiction.

Synopsis:

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.

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1, black & white illustrations

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Longman

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