Metafiction
Author: Patricia Waugh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-08
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1136493891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Metafiction
Author: Mark Currie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1317893867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetafiction 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.
Animal Money
Author: Michael Cisco
Publisher: Lazy Fascist Press
Published: 2015-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781621052128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA living form of money results in the unraveling of the world.
Black Metafiction
Author: Madelyn Jablon
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780877456568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. The book points to the shortcomings of theories of metafiction founded on studies of Anglo-American literature. It analyzes and evaluates these theories, providing a model for the evaluation of other Eurocentric theories.
No Bears
Author: Meg McKinlay
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 0763658901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA playful story that incorporates classic fairy tale themes introduces young Ella, who insists that stories require magical fairies, beautiful princesses and even the occasional monster, but absolutely no bears.
Chloe and the Lion
Author: Mac Barnett
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2017-01-04
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1368005292
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMeet Chloe: Every week, she collects loose change so she can buy tickets to ride the merry-go-round. But one fateful day, she gets lost in the woods on her way home, and a large dragon leaps out from-"Wait! It's supposed to be a lion," says Mac Barnett, the author of this book. But Adam Rex, the illustrator, thinks a dragon would be so much cooler (don't you agree?). Mac's power of the pen is at odds with Adam's brush, and Chloe's story hangs in the balance. Can she help them out of this quandary to be the heroine of her own story? Mac Barnett and Adam Rex are a dynamic duo, and two of the strongest contemporary voices in picture books today. In an accessible and funny way, Chloe and the Lion talks about the creative process and the joys and trials of collaboration.
Christie Malry's Own Double-entry
Author: Bryan Stanley Johnson
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780811209540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA disaffected young man, Christie Malry, is a simple man who learns the principles of double-entry book-keeping while taking an evening class in accountancy and working in the local bank. He begins to apply these principles to his own life, revenging himself against society in an increasingly violent manner for perceived 'debits'. Debit: the unpleasantness of the bank manager is the first on an ever-growing list; Credit: scratching the façade of the office block. All accounts are settled in the most alarming way.
Travels in the Scriptorium
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010-11-25
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13: 0571266754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photgraphs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise? After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.
Fabulation and Metafiction
Author: Robert Scholes
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistoriographic Metafiction
Author: Barry Pomeroy
Publisher: Bear's Carvery
Published: 2015-02-03
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781987922066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI ground this reading of historiographic metafiction in a series of postmodern texts which work out of and subvert traditional notions of historical writing. I use Linda Hutcheon's construction of this postmodern genre to investigate the particular literary and historical strategies these texts use and abuse in order to write an alternative history. Beginning by reviewing the theory surrounding historical fiction as well as historiography, I investigate the specific textual strategies that historiographic genres-such as the postmodern novel, the Canadian long poem, the short story and to some extent, the film genre-use to present their self-reflexive interaction between history and fiction.
