Narcissistic Narrative. The Metafictional Paradox
Editorial WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Editorial WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9781554585021
- ISBN10 1554585023
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 176
- Any Edició 2013
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Paperback
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Crítica Literària AnglesaNarcissistic Narrative. The Metafictional Paradox
Editorial WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS
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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 self-reflexive text and distanced from it because of its very self-reflexiveness. She illustrates her analysis through the works of novelists such as Fowles, Barth, Nabokov, Calvino, Borges, Carpentier, and Aquin. For the paperback edition of this important book a preface has been added which examines developments since first publication.