Metafiction

by Mark Currie

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582212928
• ISBN13: 9780582212923
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"