Metafiction
The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4825947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia Waugh (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 566 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1771928 |
| OpenAlex | W2022941532 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 167 |
Metafiction 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 that metafiction uses parody along with popular genres and non-literary forms as a way not only of exposing the inadequate and obsolescent conventions of the classic novel, but of stuggesting the lines along which fiction might develop in the future
Aesthetics · Art · Audience measurement · Fiction theory · Literary criticism · Literary fiction · Literature · Metafiction · Narrative · Politics · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis
World Building. Transmedia, Fans, Industries
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Dois pares narrativos de Lídia Jorge
Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture
La ficción, el relato y la construcción mítica del paisaje como herramientas activas de producción territorial
Postmodernism and Social-political Conversions in Tew’s Clark Gable and his Plastic Duck
O Neodistópico
Bie zai tiqi” and You Mean the World to Me
El lejano referente
The Character Confronting the Autor
A Study of the Absurdity in the Glass Mountain
Geotropes
Romantiikkagenren parodia, voice-over-kerronta ja metalepsis televisiosarjassa Jane the Virgin
Reflexividad y narratividad en Ricardo Piglia
Alienation, Modern Realism, and Metonymy in Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel”
A Metaficção nos Romances Os Irmãos Karamázov, de Dostoiévski, Ulysses, de James Joyce, e Guerra e Paz, de Tolstói
Mulherio da ousadia
Génesis y poética de los microrrelatos de Antonio Pereira
A Mim Deleitam-Me Os Certames Literários
Postmodern Experimentation in Anthony Browne’s Picturebooks
Experimentação pós-moderna nos livros-álbum de Anthony Browne
Explorations of Reality
Some Kind of Thing It Aint Us but Yet Its in Us
Remapping, Subversion, and Witnessing
Fear and Nostalgia in Times of Crisis
Estratégias metaficcionais em narrativas de Ian McEwan
Negritude Em Série
C’est la vie, c’est la narration”
I’m a I’m a Scholar at the Moment”
The Existence Formula. Boundaries of the Metafiction in Andrej Bitov’s Čelovek v Pejzaže
Fazendo Ana Paz
Parody and Metafictionality as Defamiliarization Devices in Martin Amis’s Novel Money
Historiographic Metafiction
Study on Narrative Skills in John Irving’s Novels
Translating Postmodern Picturebooks
Representing the Incomprehensible
Telling the Untold Stories
Trans-gendering the Irish Na(rra)tion
The Modernisation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Perspectivas hermenêuticas do romance metaficcional Cordilheira, de Daniel Galera
Dearest Reader, It’s Up to You
A Funhouse of Reading
Habituation Devours Things
Metafiction, Metadrama, and the God-Game in Murdoch's The Unicorn
A Cultural Mongrel
Water, window, moon
A queer problem
El abrazo de la serpiente o la re-escritura del Amazonas dentro de una ética ecológica y poscolonial
Writing the Hong Kong self
Laughing at northernness
Inscrições da alteridade no romance A paixão, de Jeanette Winterson
O duplo como paródia em O Ano do Dilúvio
Banido Do Banquete Da Vida
Using fiction to tell mad stories
Part of the project of that book was not to be authentic’
Exploring the Metafictive in Elementary Students' Writing
Exploring Grade 7 Students’ Written Responses to Shaun Tan’s The Arrival
Afinal, o que Querem as Mulheres
Desempeñar papeles y la desmitificación cultural enEl amante bilingüede Juan Marsé
Dall’autobiografia al documento. Il graphic novel tra memoria archiviata e svelamento dell’illusione in Anne Frank. The Anne Frank house authorized graphic biography
Escribir El Deseo. Metaficción Y Narración Inestable en El Cine De François Ozon
The Social Importance of How Bodies Inhabit Spaces with Others
The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts
To Ask Again
The Subterranean Performance of History between Harlem and Rome in William Demby's The Catacombs
The Burner, the Default, and the Communicative Ethnographer
Co-producing cyber protest
Traces of Scheherazade in Margaret Drabble’s The Red Queen
Apostol’s Creed
The Author is Dead, Long Live the Author! Postmodern Metanarrative and the Performance of the Author Function
Witchcraft
A masculinist northern wilderness and the emancipatory potential of literary irony
Literary dynamics in The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
In between the writerly and the readerly
Sharing outsider thinking
Towards the formalist dimension of war, or how Viktor Šklovskij used to be a soldier
Pseudotranslation, intertextuality and metafictionality
What We Do When We Do Law and Popular Culture
Dissent and Posthuman Consciousness in Prabda Yoon’s Basement Moon
Meta‐television
Réinventer la métafiction ? Lire/voir Theories of Forgetting (2014) de Lance Olsen et There’s No Place Like Time (2015) de Lance et Andi Olsen
Todo sobre mi madre, la mujer y los nuevos modelos familiares a través de la metaficción y la intertextualidad
Narrative Agency and the Critical Potential of Metanarrative Reading Groups
Formative Fictions
Tropes of Jewish Humor in Women-Led Digital Streaming Productions (2010 - 2019)
Grondliggende algoritme vir postmodernisme
Fowles's Mantissa
The deployment of metafiction in an aesthetic of engagement in J.M. Coetzee's Foe
Die komplisering van die verhaaleinde as postmodernistiese verskynsel
Die roman as polifonie
“Dit is sterk doepa daai” maar is dit al wat ons het
Postmodernist narrative strategies in Foe
Rheintochters Donaufahrt – Carmen Sylva’s Travelogue
Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove
The "wooden substitute" in Graham Swift's The Son, or the futher step in the de-familiarizing transition from modernism to postmodernism
Postmodernist narrative
From Elfland to Hogwarts, or the Aesthetic Trouble with Harry Potter
Metaficção E (Pós) Memória Em Procura Do Romance, De Julián Fuks
Intermediality, intertextuality and parody
Feminist fabulation; or, playing with patriarchy vs. the masculinization of metafiction
| Unique citing works | 167 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,17 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2026 (41) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |