174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

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. Yaël Schlick surveys a wide range of metafictional... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: Art about Art: Metafictional Narrative and the Role of Art in Society

Chapter 2: Rethinking the Author and Activating the Reader in Metafiction

Chapter 3: Ludic Metafiction: On Literature and Language Games

Chapter 4: Historiographic Metafiction: Postmodernism and the Historical Novel

Chapter 5: Autofiction: Troubling Autobiographical Assumptions

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Yaël Schlick is Professor of English at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. Her research and teaching focus on travel writing, autobiography, American poetry, and contemporary fiction. She is the author of Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment (2012), co-editor of Refiguring the Coquette (2008), and translator of Victor Segalen's Essay on Exoticism (2002).