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Metafiction - The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (Hardcover)
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Metafiction - The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (Hardcover)
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Metafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction
in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social
and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction.
The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass
media, novelists have sought to retain and regain a wide readership
by drawing on the themes and preoccupations of these forms. Making
use of contemporary fiction by such writers as Fowles, Borges,
Spark, Barthelme, Brautigan, Vonnegut and Barth, and drawing on
Russian Formalist theories of literary evolution, the book argues
that metafiction uses parody along with popular genres and
non-literary forms as a way not only of exposing the inadequate and
obsolescent conventions of the classic novel, but of stuggesting
the lines along which fiction might develop in the future.
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