Metafiction Av Yael Schlick

<P><EM>Metafiction</EM> 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¿Schlick surveys a wide range of metafictional writings by diverse authors, with particular focus on the contemporary period.</P><P>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.</P><I><P>Metafiction </I>is an engaging and accessible introduction to

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