LEADER 03268oam 22006374a 450 001 9910824869703321 005 20210209174531.0 010 $a1-55458-910-X 010 $a1-55458-908-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000317060 035 $a(EBL)685684 035 $a(OCoLC)756484094 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001413134 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11890972 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001413134 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11416116 035 $a(PQKB)10486171 035 $a(CEL)446050 035 $a(OCoLC)881552241 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00234437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3292829 035 $a(OCoLC)836189600 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28553 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC685684 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000317060 100 $a20130403e20131980 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNarcissistic Narrative$b[electronic resource] $eThe Metafictional Paradox /$fLinda Hutcheon 210 1$aWaterloo, Ontario, Canada :$cWilfrid Laurier University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$d©2013 210 2$aBeaconsfield, Quebec :$cCanadian Electronic Library,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (182 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©1980. This edition includes a new preface. 311 $a1-55458-502-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Introduction -- Modes & Forms of Narrative Narcissism: Introduction of a Typology -- Process & Product: The Implications of Metafiction for the Theory of the Novel as a Mimetic Genre -- Thematizing Narrative Artifice: Parody, Allegory, & the Mise En Abyme -- Freedom Through Artifice: The French Lieutenants Woman -- Actualizing Narrative Structures: Detective Plot, Fantasy, Games, & the Erotic -- The Language of Fiction: Creating the Heterocosm of Fictive Referents -- The Theme of Linguistic identity: La Maccina Modiale -- Generative Word Play: The Outer Limits of the Novel Genre -- Composite Identity: The Reader, the Writer, the Critic -- Conclusion & Speculations. 330 $a Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such a development for both the theory of the novel and reading theory. Having placed this phenomenon in its historical context Linda Hutcheon uses the insights of various reader-response theories to explore the "paradox" created by metafiction: the reader is, at the same time, co-creator of the sel 606 $aFiction$xTechnique 606 $aFiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFiction$xTechnique. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.3 676 $a809.3/04 676 $a809.304 700 $aHutcheon$b Linda$f1947-$0165517 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824869703321 996 $aNarcissistic narrative$9143941 997 $aUNINA