Metafiction : The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction

Name: Metafiction
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415030069
Price: 7900 KES
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ISBN: 9780415030069

by Patricia Waugh

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series New Accents

ISBN-10 0415030064

ISBN-13 9780415030069

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 18th, 1984

Print length 186 Pages

Weight 218 grams

Dimensions 20.70 x 12.70 x 1.30 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: general

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Metafication focuses on the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the political, social and economic factors which have an effet on the critical judgement of fiction.

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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