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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"metafiction"”.
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Studies in metafiction and postmodernism
Most studies of American metafiction tend to subsume that movement within the larger category of a self reflexive narrative tradition beginning with Lawrence Sterne and fluidly developing through the modernist experimentation of Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner to the more recent subversion of modernist …
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Metafiction in the work of Tim O'Brien
This thesis explores Tim O'Brien's ideas on the definition of fiction, memory, imagination, the role they play in the creative process, and the functions that fiction has in the world at large. This will be explored through close examination of O'Brien's self-referential narrative technique. This …
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Marvellous geometry : narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale
… rests partially in its qualities of inherentmetafictionality, the extent to which it self-consciously denies mimesis. This gives it particular relevance to postmodernism, as does the structuredness which facilitates self-aware play with genre. At the same time, the status of oral fairy tale …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… short story "Winter Dreams") wrote dialectical metafiction, a literary form that reproduces the ideological forms of consciousness while contextualizing them within determinate levels of material and ideological production, and they challenge heretofore subjective ways of understanding American …
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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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Laurent Binet's HHhH: Historiographic Metafiction in Contemporary French Literature about World War II
… of contemporary French authors have employed metafiction—a narrative mode in which texts themselves purposefully call attention to the fact that they are fiction—when writing novels which attempt to grapple with traumatic events, namely World War II and the Holocaust. In attempting to …
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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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"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
… attention has so far dealt with the subject of metafiction. This study aims to make use of narratological analyses as well as drawing upon relevant theorists (e.g., Patricia Waugh, Fredric Jameson) to illustrate the various different ways Whedon has consciously constructed metafiction as an …
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Dismember the past
… creative literary biography, or historiographic metafiction, of the life and works of writer and composer Anthony Burgess (1917-1993). The text consists of two synchronous narratives: a fictionalised account of Burgess’ life as a writer, charting his time as a struggling would-be composer in …
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
… postmodern techniques such as historiographic metafiction, the hegemony of mode of productions, the postmodern fragmented self, and suspicions of grand narrative. Furthermore, I will argue that there is an association between Rushdie's postmodern narrative technique (his mixing of history and …
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Some String or Another: Fiction and Nonfiction Stories of Connection
… body of the work are six fiction stories, one metafiction story, and two nonfiction essays.
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Between history and fiction : the author’s responsibility to historical fiction, and, The rainbow man : a novel
… novel produced is a variant of historiographic metafiction combined with the mode of a memory novel. My critical investigation has led me to explore creatively writing history through differing perspectives of memory. In Chapter One of the critical essay, I outline the differences between …
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De Cortés al Mago de Oz: Estrategias posmodernas en el teatro latinoamericano: 1980-1992
… nonliterary genres, anachronism, ahistoricity, metafiction, transvestism and parody are used by the playwrights to question the traditional beliefs of history, genre, gender and art. By exploring these strategies, I demonstrate how the plays dismantle not only the traditions and conventions …
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A history of Austin Ballet Theatre at the Armadillo World Headquarters
… through the creation of a historiographic metafiction about Austin Ballet Theatre at the Armadillo World Headquarters. The metafiction, included as an appendix, provides an alternative way of experiencing the data towards fulfilling the research purpose of representing the multi-layered …
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