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Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction Patricia Waugh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

If one tried to make a list of those values from this collection of letters, it would include the cosmic, the frame, the refusal of the personal, the love of small forms, the fantastic, the metafictional, or self-consciously fictional. Metafiction: the theory and practice of self-conscious fiction. Sep 16, 2009 - "Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction, and reality. The distinction between high and low culture .. Metafiction is a term given to "fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality" (Waugh 2). May 11, 2014 - This is the main feature of metafiction in Slaughterhouse-Five. Regarding the above theories, this novel itself is a means of communication between reality and fiction that will prove ultimately baffling to the main character and reader. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. Already, Vonnegut is playing with . Jul 26, 2013 - In a letter written in 1971 to Esther Benítez, who was at work on a Spanish edition of Pavese's own Letters, Calvino offered a general theory: “It is only by situating him in what was his field of combat that one can understand Pavese's originality and .. Nov 22, 2010 - The first sentence, “All this happened, more or less” (Vonnegut 1) is immediately self-referential. Sep 15, 2011 - On a geberal consensus, however, one could claim that it is a fiction preoccupied with the relation between imagination and reality especially, how the former “operates upon the latter. In providing a critique of their own methods of construction, such writings not only examine itself, including the conventions of the novel as a whole or particular forms of that genre.” Patricia Waugh, Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Concious Fiction. Sep 8, 2010 - This distrust of totalizing mechanisms extends even to the author and his own self-awareness; thus postmodern writers often celebrate chance over craft and employ metafiction to undermine the author's "univocation" (the existence of narrative primacy within a text, the presence of a single all-powerful storytelling authority). Pauline images in fiction and firm : on reversing the hermeneutical flow. Performance analysis: an introductory coursebook. Jan 23, 2014 - What connects not only these quotations but also all of the very different writers whom one could refer to as broadly 'metafictional', is that they all explore a theory of fiction through the practice of writing fiction. Apr 18, 2012 - Patricia Waugh, in Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (NY: Routledge, 1984), describes metafiction as: an elastic term which cover(s) a wide range of fictions. Aug 8, 2010 - Metafiction: the theory and practice of self-conscious fiction. Feb 14, 2012 - “The Amish Farmer”, by Vance Bourjaily, is an excellent example of metafiction: a type of fiction that is self-reflectively focused on the very device of fiction.