Metafiction - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 058221291X ISBN 13 : 9780582212916

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 1995

Synopsis

This series provides volumes of readings on critical theories. Each volume includes a substantial introduction which explores the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement between positions. The pluralism of theories has to be put on the agenda of literary studies.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary University of London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 058221291X
• ISBN 13: 9780582212916
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Currie Mark
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible