Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction Patricia Waugh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Already, Vonnegut is playing with . Nov 22, 2010 - The first sentence, “All this happened, more or less” (Vonnegut 1) is immediately self-referential. Aug 31, 2013 - Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox, 9781554585021. May 16, 2014 - The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of. For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction. €The Literature of Exhaustion”. Nov 9, 2005 - Standard works such as Patricia Waugh's book Metafiction. Apr 18, 2012 - Patricia Waugh, in Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (NY: Routledge, 1984), describes metafiction as: an elastic term which cover(s) a wide range of fictions. Means "beyond fiction." Thus metafiction can be described as fiction about the nature and purpose of fiction. Jul 8, 2013 - With scrupulous attention to margins and edges, she folded in each of the 95 leaves (10 opening pages + 176 numbered pages + 4 end pages) of 'Metaficton : the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction' by Patricia Waugh (Methuen, 1984, ISBN 0-416-32640-4 (Pbk.)) one weekend, as the spirit It is chance that she chose this particular book, though the irony of the final object would not be lost on academics who make a living out of teaching metafiction. The Theory and Practice of Self-conscious Fiction (London: Routledge 1988). New York: Elseworlds (DC Comics). Sep 15, 2011 - On a geberal consensus, however, one could claim that it is a fiction preoccupied with the relation between imagination and reality especially, how the former “operates upon the latter. Aug 9, 2011 - Waid, Mark, writer. Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.