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 possibilities in fictions by Borges, Robbe-Grillet, and John Barth. Typically, these studies also encounter the need to define contemporary metafictions as postmodern. As a result, metafiction becomes both the logical extension of a developing narrative tradition and definitive of the postmodern.
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