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Author_Mark Currie
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Contemporary British Fiction
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Disiecta Membra
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French Lieutenant's Woman
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Historiographic Metafiction
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Lonesome Wife
Meta Fiction
Metafictional Novels
Nabokov's Pale Fire
narrative illusion
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Notre Dame De Paris
Olive Section
Orbis Tertius
Ponson Du Terrail
Postmodern Fiction
poststructuralist analysis
Public Burning
Recent British Fiction
Red Section
self-conscious fiction analysis
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Trois Mousquetaires
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Vice Versa
William Weaver
Willie Masters
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Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138149724
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary University of London.
