Metafiction

✍ Scribed by Currie, Mark

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 262
• Series: Longman critical readers
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Defining Metafiction 1. Metafiction 2. What is metafiction and why are they saying such awful things about it? 3. Metanarrative signs Part Two: Historiographic Metafiction 4. Historiographic metafiction 5. British historiographic metafiction 6. The question of narrative in contemporary historical theory Part Three: The writer/critic 7. The novel now 8. The literature of exhaustion 9. From Reflections on the "Name of the Rose" Part Four: Readings of Metafiction 10.The art of metafiction 11. Metafiction, the historical novel and Coover's "The Public Burning" 12. The Novel, illusion and reality: the paradox of omniscience in "The French Lieutenant's Women" 13. A novel which is a machine for generating interpretations Bibliography Index

✦ Subjects

Literature -- History and criticism;Literary style;Fiction -- History and criticism;Fiction -- Technique;Fiction;Literature