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

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). For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction. May 16, 2014 - The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition. 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. Waugh, Patricia, Metafiction : The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious. €�The Literature of Exhaustion”. May 11, 2014 - This is the main feature of metafiction in Slaughterhouse-Five. The distinction between high and low culture .. Feb 12, 2008 - “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. In providing a critique of their own methods of construction, such writings not only examine the . Craik The Arden edition of the works of William Shakespeare London : Methuen , 1975. 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). Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. Metafiction: the theory and practice of self-conscious fiction.