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200 10$aMetafiction $ethe theory and practice of self-conscious fiction /$fPatricia Waugh
210  1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cMethuen,$d1984.
215   $a1 online resource (187 p.)
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300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; General editors preface; Acknowledgements; 1 What is metafiction and why are they saying such awful things about it?; 2 Literary self-consciousness: developments; 3 Literary evolution: the place of parody; 4 Are novelists liars? The ontological status of literary-fictional discourse; 5 Fictionality and context: from role-playing to language games; Notes; Bibliography; Further reading; Index
330   $aMetafiction begins by surveying the state of contemporary fiction in Britain and America and explores the complex political, social and economic factors which influence critical judgment of fiction. The author shows how, as the novel has been eclipsed by the mass media, novelists have sought to retain and regain a wide readership by drawing on the themes and preoccupations of these forms. Making use of contemporary fiction by such writers as Fowles, Borges, Spark, Barthelme, Brautigan, Vonnegut and Barth, and drawing on Russian Formalist theories of literary evolution, the book argues
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615  0$aExperimental fiction$xHistory and criticism.
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