|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
|
Buy Now
Metafiction and the Postwar Novel - Foes, Ghosts, and Faces in the Water (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,478
Discovery Miles 24 780
|
|
|
Metafiction and the Postwar Novel - Foes, Ghosts, and Faces in the Water (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days
|
Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full-length reassessment of
one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period,
sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of
large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of
writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers,
literary reception, and earlier works in a career. The emergence of
archival materials and posthumously published works helps to bring
into view the stakes of different moments of writing. It develops
new terms for discussing literary self-reflexivity, derived from a
reading of Don Quixote and its reception by J.L. Borges - the 'self
of writing' and the 'public author as signature'. Across three
comprehensive chapters, Metafiction and Postwar Fiction shows how
some of the most highly-regarded postwar writers were motivated to
incorporate reflexive elements into their writing - and to what
ends. The first chapter, on South African novelist J. M. Coetzee,
shows with a new clarity how his fictions drew from and relativized
academic literary theory and the conditions of writing in apartheid
South Africa. The second chapter, on New Zealand writer Janet
Frame, draws widely from her fictions, autobiographies, and
posthumously published materials. It demonstrates the terms in
which her writing addresses a readership seemingly convinced that
her work expressed the interior experience of 'madness'. The final
chapter, on American writer Philip Roth, shows how his early
reception led to his later, and often explosive, reconsiderations
of identity and literary value in postwar America.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(4)
