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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Metafictional"”.
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Kinds of spaces : poststructural concepts and metafictional appropriations
"Kinds of Spaces: Poststructural Concepts and Metafictional Appropriations" emerges from studies in structural linguistics, contemporary critical theory, and metafiction and thus moves into the realms of poststructuralism and deconstruction while developing a theory of space in writing. Its central …
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Metafictional aspects in the narrative of Miguel de Unamuno (Spain)
The present work is a study of metafictional aspects in three novels of Miguel de Unamuno. The first chapter provides a definition of metafiction and positions the idea of metafiction within the Spanish novel. This fictional concept is traced through the history of the Spanish novel beginning with …
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To Be or Not to Be: On the Ontology and Morality of Metafictional Characters in The Dirge City Story
… City Story, it investigates the context in which metafictional characters can be said to exist, how they come to terms with the awareness of their fictional existence and under what conditions can morality be sustained in a metafictional world. Throughout the thesis, the relationship between the …
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A coat of ashes: A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - Poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: a poetics: A set of critical essays
… with the sciences. The poems are offset by a metafictional narrative, “The Dream”, which may be read as an allegory of the writing journey and the struggle to combine discourses. The four essays articulate the poetics of “A coat of ashes” by addressing its context, themes, influences, …
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The Tripartite Tributaries of Ush
… the act of mythmaking and the composition of metafictional text in this work of fiction. The myth aspect combines elements of Classical, biblical, medieval, Romantic, and original materials to form a product that should strike readers as both familiar and alien, demonstrating Campbell’s notion …
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Blikhoek
… guidance for beginner-poets present in the metafictional Kladboek is examined with reference to Fourie Botha’s collection of poetry titled Blikhoek (included), which came about during work done for a Creative Writing Masters degree from the University of Cape Town.
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Blikhoek
… guidance for beginner-poets present in the metafictional Kladboek is examined with reference to Fourie Botha's collection of poetry titled Blikhoek (included), which came about during work done for a Creative Writing Masters degree from the University of Cape Town
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Muriel Spark’s Authorial Strategies
… which contrasts with Muriel Spark's highly metafictional novelistic production, with an almost obsessive tendency to explore and expose the very nature of fiction and the complex relationship between life and art. Therefore, her autobiography ends with the idea of being “completed” or …
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Textual Space and Metafiction in Mark Z Danielewski's House of Leaves
… presents an argument that through employing metafictional techniques, experimentation with textual and graphic space and allusions to hypertextual devices, Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves seeks to remind the reader of the presence of the book in print fiction. Danielewski dispenses with …
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"It's Like We Were Being Watched ... Like There Were Only 3 Walls, And Not a Fourth Wall": Manifestations of Metafiction in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
… application towards television with regards to metafictional conflation. </p>
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Narrative privacy : keeping secrets in contemporary Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American metafictions
This dissertation considers twenty-first century metafictional novels and short stories by Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American authors who use literary form to theorize the politics of ethnic privacy. These authors use metafictional strategies to situate the well-meaning desires …
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“Of Considerable Interest But of No Great Importance”: Models of Relationality in the Work of Jane Bowles
… of Bowles's work, her poetic, aesthetic, and metafictional choices, demonstrate a relationship between reader and text that likewise operates along inscriptive and hermeneutic practices. This suggests not a fatalistic or stabilized portrait of relationality, but one in which there is room for …
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Confrontation and identity in the fiction of J.M. Coetzee
… and establish what I perceive to be a metafictional objective. The limitations of rational engagement are eloquently represented in Coetzee's novels in the presence of the suffering body. It is the aim of this thesis to trace a trajectory which begins in this metalingual space and leads …
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The Playhouse Bibles
… My goal in compiling this version of this metafictional thesis was to say something about how I write now, to indulge in the rare and glorious opportunity to explore the process of writing beyond genre and product, to honor chaos and magic when it occurs on the page, and it certainly did …
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Towards a <i>Literary Criticism</i>: Lowry, Durrell, Dolores, and the alchemical balance between critical and creative writing
… I discuss the traces of Sade in Durrell, the metafictional novelette “Dolor” concludes the project, betraying numerous critical themes: the decentered subject, anxieties of authorship, and writing the body as text. My aim is to suggest that if literature is not beholden to logical truth, …
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Laurent Binet's HHhH: Historiographic Metafiction in Contemporary French Literature about World War II
… to two other contemporary French historiographic metafictional novels about World War II and the Holocaust—Jonathan Littell's <em>The Kindly Ones</em> (2006) and Yannick Haenel's <em>The Messenger</em> (2009)—to assert that Binet's text successfully maintains both historical truth and fictional …
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Literatura policial: gender, genre, and appropriation in Argentine and Brazilian hard-boiled crime fiction.
… with government and capitalism, neglecting its metafictional qualities and its critique of gender relations. By focusing both on representations of male and female characters and on various modes of discourse in the work of Fonseca, Piglia, Melo, and Piñeiro, this dissertation brings a new …
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A True War Story: Reality and Simulation in the American Literature and Film of the Vietnam War
… about Vietnam through their use of specific metafictional techniques, which continually remind readers and viewers that the story being told is not reality but a story. By emphasizing the fictional elements of their narratives, Apocalypse Now and The Things They Carried point to the …
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