Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction

by Jill Talbot

Metawriting--the writing about writing or writing that calls attention to itself as writing--has been around since Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy, but Jill Talbot makes that case that now more than ever the act of metawriting is performed on a daily basis by anyone with a Facebook profile, a Twitter account, or a webpage. Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction is the first collection to combine metawriting in both fiction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609380894
• ISBN13: 9781609380892
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"