Metafiction / Ya©±l Schlick.

Author/creator Schlick, Ya©±l, 1963-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Descriptionpages cm.
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Subjects

SeriesThe new critical idiom
Contents Introduction -- Art about Art: Metafictional Narrative and the Role of Art in Society -- Rethinking the Author & Activating the Reader in Metafiction -- Ludic Metafiction: On Literature and Language Games -- Historiographic Metafiction: Postmodernism and the Historical Novel -- Autofiction: Troubling Autobiographical Assumptions.
Abstract "Metafiction explores the great variety and effects of this popular genre and style, variously defined as a type of literature that philosophically questions itself, that repudiates the conventions of literary realism, that questions the relationship between fiction and reality, or that lies at the border between fiction and non-fiction. Ya©±l Schlick surveys a wide range of metafictional writings by diverse authors, with particular focus on the contemporary period. This book asks not only what metafiction is but also what it can do, examining metafictional narratives' usefulness for exploring the role of art in society, its role in conceptualizing the figure of author and the reader of fiction, its investigation and playfulness with respect to language and linguistic conventions, and its troubling of the boundaries between fact and fiction in historiographic metafiction, autofiction and autotheory. Metafiction is an engaging and accessible introduction to a pervasive and influential form and concept in literary studies, and will be of use to all students of literary studies requiring a depth of knowledge in the subject"-- Provided by publisher.
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LCCN 2022015232
ISBN9781032019086 (hardback)
ISBN9781032019079 (paperback)
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