The Metafictional Muse

Author : Larry McCaffery
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822976356

Get Book

The Metafictional Muse by Larry McCaffery Pdf

McCaffery interprets the works of three major writers of radically experimental fiction: Robert Coover; Donald Barthelme; and Willam H. Gass. The term “metafiction” here refers to a strain in American writing where the self-concious approach to the art of fiction-making is a commentary on the nature of meaning itself.

Author : Larry McCaffery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608050881

Get Book

The Metafictional Muse by Larry McCaffery Pdf

Author : Mark Currie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317893875

Get Book

Metafiction by Mark Currie Pdf

Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of writing; and secondly effect: an emphasis on the playing with styles and forms, resulting from an enhanced self-consciousness and awareness of the elusiveness of meaning and the limitations of the realist form. Dr Currie's volume examines first the two components of metafiction, with practical illustrations from the work of such writers as Derrida and Foucault. A final section then provides the view of metafiction as seen by metafictional writers themselves.

Author : H. L. Hix
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570034729

Get Book

Understanding William H. Gass by H. L. Hix Pdf

In this 5x7" guide to the work of American writer and philosopher William H. Gass, Hix, director of the School of Liberal Arts at the Kansas City Art Institute, explores parallels between Gass' fiction and nonfiction and seeks to clarify obscurities that have hindered access to his writing. He identifies psychological, metaphysical, and ethical themes and demonstrates how Gass' writings both break and follow traditions of metafiction and moral fiction. Hix has published poetry and works of criticism, and is the author of an earlier volume in this series. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Elizabeth K. Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781461632931

Get Book

Apocalyptic Transformation by Elizabeth K. Rosen Pdf

Apocalyptic Transformation explores how one the oldest sense-making paradigms, the apocalyptic myth, is altered when postmodern authors and filmmakers adopt it. It examines how postmodern writers adapt a fundamentally religious story for a secular audience and it proposes that even as these writers use the myth in traditional ways, they simultaneously undermine and criticize the grand narrative of apocalypse itself.

Author : Tabitha Sparks
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813948720

Get Book

Victorian Metafiction by Tabitha Sparks Pdf

Critics agree in the abstract that "metafiction" refers to any novel that draws attention to its own fictional construction, but metafiction has been largely associated with the postmodern era. In this innovative new book Tabitha Sparks identifies a sustained pattern of metafiction in the Victorian novel that illuminates the art and intentions of its female practitioners. From the mid-nineteenth century through the fin de siècle, novels by Victorian women such as Charlotte Brontë, Rhoda Broughton, Charlotte Riddell, Eliza Lynn Linton, and several New Women authors share a common but underexamined trope: the fictional characterization of the woman novelist or autobiographer. Victorian Metafiction reveals how these novels systemically dispute the assumptions that women wrote primarily about their emotions or were restricted to trivial, sentimental plots. Countering an established tradition that has read novels by women writers as heavily autobiographical and confessional, Sparks identifies the literary technique of metafiction in numerous novels by women writers and argues that women used metafictional self-consciousness to draw the reader’s attention to the book and not the novelist. By dislodging the narrative from these cultural prescriptions, Victorian Metafiction effectively argues how these women novelists presented the business and art of writing as the subject of the novel and wrote metafiction in order to establish their artistic integrity and professional authority.

Author : James Baxter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030815721

Get Book

Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction by James Baxter Pdf

Samuel Beckett’s Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett’s rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett’s post-war writing of exhaustion and generation in relation to the emergence of an explosive American avant-garde. In turn, this study provides a valuable insight into the practical realities of Beckett’s dissemination in America, following the author’s long-standing relationship with the countercultural magazine Evergreen Review and its dramatic role in redrawing the possibilities of American culture in the 1960s. While Beckett would be largely removed from his American context, this book follows his vigorous, albeit sometimes awkward, reception alongside the authors and institutions central to shaping his legacies in 20th and 21st century America.

Author : David Herman,Manfred Jahn,Marie-Laure Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134458400

Get Book

Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory by David Herman,Manfred Jahn,Marie-Laure Ryan Pdf

The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a basic human strategy for coming to terms with time, process, and change. However, the very predominance of narrative as a focus of interest across multiple disciplines makes it imperative for scholars, teachers, and students to have access to a comprehensive reference resource.

Author : Richard Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-09-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521471451

Get Book

Novel Arguments by Richard Walsh Pdf

Novel arguments argues that innovative fiction - by which is meant writing that has been variously labeled postmodern, metafictional, experimental - extends our ways of thinking about the world, and rejects the critical consensus that, under the rubrics of postmodernism and metafiction, homogenizes this fiction as autonomous and self-absorbed. Play, self-consciousness, and immanence - supposed symptoms of innovative fiction's autonomy - are here reconsidered as integral to its means of engagement. The book advances a concept of the "argument" of fiction as a construct wedding structure and content into a highly evolved and expressive experimental form. Close readings of five important innovative novels by Donald Barthelme, Ishmael Reed, Robert Coover, Walter Abish, and Kathy Acker show how they articulate matters of substance, social engagement, and ideological currency by virtue of the act of innovation. Walsh deftly argues for a new understanding of fictional cognition at the theoretical level, and, in an act of great critical creativity, discards altogether the flattening totalities of received postmodern formulations.

Author : Takayuki Tatsumi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822337746

Get Book

Full Metal Apache by Takayuki Tatsumi Pdf

DIVCompares modern science fiction and the avant garde pop scene in America and Japan./div

Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196314

Get Book

The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 by John N. Duvall Pdf

A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

Author : Jaroslav Kušnír
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838255149

Get Book

American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction by Jaroslav Kušnír Pdf

Jaroslav Kušnír’s book American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction is a sequel to his previous study on American postmodern fiction entitled Poetika americkej postmodernej prózy: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme [Poetics of American Fiction: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme]. Prešov: Impreso, 2001. It explores various aspects of American postmodernist fiction as manifested in the works by Richard Brautigan, Donald Barthelme and other American postmodernist authors such as Robert Coover, E. L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster. Analyzing various short stories and novels, the author shows differences between modernist and postmodernist literature in the works of Donald Barthelme; the way postmodern parodies of popular literary genres give a critique of some aspects of American cultural identity and experience (the American Dream, individualism, consumerism); and he also shows different ways postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Kurt Vonnegut and Paul Auster create metafictional effect as one of the most significant aspects of postmodern literature.

Author : Daniel Grausam
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813931661

Get Book

On Endings by Daniel Grausam Pdf

What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam’s On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. In Grausam’s view, previous studies of fiction mimetically concerned with nuclear conflict neither engage the problems that total war might pose to narration nor take seriously the paradox of a war that narrative can never actually describe. Those few critical works that do take seriously such problems do not offer a broad account of American postmodernism. And recent work on postmodernism has offered no comprehensive historical account of the part played by nuclear weapons in the emergence of new forms of temporal and historical experience. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War.

Author : Robert Rebein
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813184593

Get Book

Hicks, Tribes, and Dirty Realists by Robert Rebein Pdf

Robert Rebein argues that much literary fiction of the 1980s and 90s represents a triumphant, if tortured, return to questions about place and the individual that inspired the works of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Faulkner, and other giants of American literature. Concentrating on the realist bent and regional orientation in contemporary fiction, he discusses in detail the various names by which this fiction has been described, including literary postmodernism, minimalism, Hick Chic, Dirty Realism, ecofeminism, and more. Rebein's clearly written, nuanced interpretations of works by Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Louise Erdrich, Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, E. Annie Proulx, Chris Offut, and others, will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Author : Brian Evenson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570034826

Get Book

Understanding Robert Coover by Brian Evenson Pdf

This text takes on the work of Robert Coover, a major figure of postmodern metafiction. In an analysis of Coover's short stories and novels, it demonstrates how Coover writes in several different modes that cross over into one another.