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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Jakaitis, John Michael

Contributors dc:contributor

• Nelson, Cary

• Literature, American

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1990 Jakaitis, John Michael

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9021700
(UMI)AAI9021700

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21981