Metafiction

ISBN-13: 9780582212923 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 262 str.

Currie, Mark

Opis

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

Spis treści

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  10.The 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

O autorze

Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary University of London.