Truth and Metafiction

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501351745
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Truth and Metafiction by : Josh Toth

Download or read book Truth and Metafiction written by Josh Toth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism. Yet, if (as is now widely assumed) postmodernism has finally run its course, how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media? Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism has passed, or has the function of metafiction somehow changed? To answer these questions, Josh Toth considers a broad range of recent metafictional texts-bywriters such as George Saunders and Jennifer Egan and directors such as Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino. At the same time, he traverses a diffuse theoretical landscape: from the rise of various new materialisms (in philosophy) and the turn to affect (in literary criticism) to the seemingly endless efforts to name postmodernism's ostensible successor. Ultimately, Toth argues that much contemporary metafiction moves beyond postmodern skepticism to reassert the possibility of making true claims about real things. Capable of combating a “post-truth” crisis, such forms assert or assume a kind of Hegelian plasticity; they actively and persistently confront the trauma of what is infinitely mutable, or perpetually other. What is outside or before a given representation is confirmed and endured as that which exceeds the instance of its capture. The truth is thereby renewed; neither denied nor simply assumed, it is approached as ethically as possible. Its plasticity is grasped because the grasp, the form of its narrative apprehension, lets slip.

Historiographic Metafiction

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Publisher : Bear's Carvery
ISBN 13 : 9781987922066
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Historiographic Metafiction by : Barry Pomeroy

Download or read book Historiographic Metafiction written by Barry Pomeroy and published by Bear's Carvery. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I ground this reading of historiographic metafiction in a series of postmodern texts which work out of and subvert traditional notions of historical writing. I use Linda Hutcheon's construction of this postmodern genre to investigate the particular literary and historical strategies these texts use and abuse in order to write an alternative history. Beginning by reviewing the theory surrounding historical fiction as well as historiography, I investigate the specific textual strategies that historiographic genres-such as the postmodern novel, the Canadian long poem, the short story and to some extent, the film genre-use to present their self-reflexive interaction between history and fiction.

The Things They Carried

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547420293
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis The Things They Carried by : Tim O'Brien

Download or read book The Things They Carried written by Tim O'Brien and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look for O’Brien’s new book, American Fantastica, on sale October 24th A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Fabulation and Metafiction

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Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Fabulation and Metafiction by : Robert Scholes

Download or read book Fabulation and Metafiction written by Robert Scholes and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cosmodernism

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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472071297
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Cosmodernism by : Christian Moraru

Download or read book Cosmodernism written by Christian Moraru and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the emerging cultural model of "cosmodernism"

Metafiction

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136493891
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Metafiction by : Patricia Waugh

Download or read book Metafiction written by Patricia Waugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Metafiction

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134970730
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Metafiction by : Patricia Waugh

Download or read book Metafiction written by Patricia Waugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Factual Fictions

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443824771
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Factual Fictions by : Leonora Flis

Download or read book Factual Fictions written by Leonora Flis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Factual Fictions: Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel focuses on contemporary American documentary narratives, specifically the documentary novel, as it re-emerged in the 1960s and later developed into various other forms. The book explores the connections between the documentary novel and the concurrent rise of New Journalism (a.k.a. “literary journalism”) in the United States, situating the two genres in the cultural context of the tumultuous 1960s and an emerging postmodern ethos. Flis makes a comprehensive analysis of texts by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, John Berendt, and Don DeLillo, while tackling discussions on various theoretical complexities with assurance and rigor. Interested in the precarious divide between fact and fiction, the author productively complicates traditional notions of the two poles. Furthermore, the book examines parallels between contemporary Slovene documentary narratives and their American counterparts. Flis’s work, with its systematic and innovative approach to the subject matter, adds an important historical dimension to the developing field of literary journalism studies as well as to the more established area of 20th Century American literature.

Theory of the Novel

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801863974
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Book Synopsis Theory of the Novel by : Michael McKeon

Download or read book Theory of the Novel written by Michael McKeon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McKeon and others delve into the significance of the novel as a genre form, issues in novel techniques such as displacement, the grand theory, narrative modes such as subjectivity, character, and development, critical interpretation of the structure of the novel, and the novel in historical context.

Metafiction

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317893867
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis Metafiction by : Mark Currie

Download or read book Metafiction written by Mark Currie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metafiction is one of the most distinctive features of postwar fiction, appearing in the work of novelists as varied as Eco, Borges, Martin Amis and Julian Barnes. It comprises two elements: firstly cause, the increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and the practice of writing; and secondly effect: an emphasis on the playing with styles and forms, resulting from an enhanced self-consciousness and awareness of the elusiveness of meaning and the limitations of the realist form. Dr Currie's volume examines first the two components of metafiction, with practical illustrations from the work of such writers as Derrida and Foucault. A final section then provides the view of metafiction as seen by metafictional writers themselves.

All Stories Are True

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617030055
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis All Stories Are True by : Tracie Church Guzzio

Download or read book All Stories Are True written by Tracie Church Guzzio and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In All Stories Are True, Tracie Church Guzzio provides the first full-length study of John Edgar Wideman’s entire oeuvre to date. Specifically, Guzzio examines the ways in which Wideman (b. 1941) engages with three crucial themes-history, myth, and trauma-throughout his career, showing how they intertwine. Guzzio argues that, for four decades, the influential African American writer has endeavored to create a version of the African American experience that runs counter to mainstream interpretations, using history and myth to confront and then heal the trauma caused by slavery and racism. Wideman's work intentionally blurs boundaries between fiction and autobiography, myth and history, particularly as that history relates to African American experience in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fusion of fiction, national history, and Wideman's personal life is characteristic of his style, which-due to its complexity and smudging of genre distinctions-has presented analytic difficulties for literary scholars. Despite winning the PEN/Faulkner award twice, for Sent for You Yesterday (1984) and Philadelphia Fire (1990), Wideman remains under-studied. Of particular value is Guzzio's analysis of the many ways in which Wideman alludes to his previous works. This intertextuality allows Wideman to engage his books in direct, intentional dialogue with each other through repeated characters, images, folktales, and songs. In Wideman's challenging of a monolithic view of history and presenting alternative perspectives to it, and his allowing past, present, and future time to remain fluid in the narratives, Guzzio finds an author firm in his notion that all stories and all perspectives have merit.

This Is Pleasure

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Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524749141
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Book Synopsis This Is Pleasure by : Mary Gaitskill

Download or read book This Is Pleasure written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.

Self-Reference in the Media

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110198835
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Self-Reference in the Media by : Winfried Nöth

Download or read book Self-Reference in the Media written by Winfried Nöth and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how the media have become self-referential or self-reflexive instead of mediating between the real or fictional worlds about which their messages pretend to be and between the audience that they wish to inform, counsel, or entertain. The concept of self-reference is viewed very broadly. Self-reflexivity, metatexts, metapictures, metamusic, metacommunication, as well as intertextual, and intermedial references are all conceived of as forms of self-reference, although to different degrees and levels. The contributions focus on the semiotic foundations of reference and self-reference, discuss the transdisciplinary context of self-reference in postmodern culture, and examine original studies from the worlds of print advertising, photography, film, television, computer games, media art, web art, and music. A wide range of different media products and topics are discussed including self-promotion on TV, the TV show Big Brother, the TV format "historytainment," media nostalgia, the documentation of documentation in documentary films, Marilyn Monroe in photographs, humor and paradox in animated films, metacommunication in computer games, metapictures, metafiction, metamusic, body art, and net art.

Truth from a Lie

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739138774
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Book Synopsis Truth from a Lie by : Margaret Key

Download or read book Truth from a Lie written by Margaret Key and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reassessment of some of the major fictional, dramatic, documentary, and critical texts in which Abe worked out his theory of realism in the 1950s and 1960s explores the ways in which the documentarian and the detective became important metaphors in Abe's realist project. It opens up new possibilities for exploring ideas that Abe investigates in virtually all of his significant works: how we 'see,' how we 'know,' and how we ethically engage with alterity.

Confessions of the Fox

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Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0399592288
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Confessions of the Fox by : Jordy Rosenberg

Download or read book Confessions of the Fox written by Jordy Rosenberg and published by One World. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors’ Choice: “A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution.” NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • HuffPost • Kirkus Reviews • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award • Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • “A dazzling tale of queer romance and resistance.”—Time Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess were the most notorious thieves, jailbreakers, and lovers of eighteenth-century London. Yet no one knows the true story; their confessions have never been found. Until now. Reeling from heartbreak, a scholar named Dr. Voth discovers a long-lost manuscript—a gender-defying exposé of Jack and Bess’s adventures. Is Confessions of the Fox an authentic autobiography or a hoax? As Dr. Voth is drawn deeper into Jack and Bess’s tale of underworld resistance and gender transformation, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them all. Writing with the narrative mastery of Sarah Waters and the playful imagination of Nabokov, Jordy Rosenberg is an audacious storyteller of extraordinary talent. Praise for Confessions of the Fox “A cunning metafiction of vulpine versatility . . . an action-adventure tale with postmodern flourishes; an academic comedy spliced with period erotica; an intimate meditation on belonging.”—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker “Confessions of the Fox is so goddamned good. Reading it was like an out-of-body experience. I want to run through the streets screaming about it. It should be in the personal canon of every queer and non-cis person. Read it.”—Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award finalist for Her Body and Other Parties “A hat tip to Moby-Dick . . . a running footnote hall of mirrors to rival Borges . . . one of the most trenchant calls for progressive action that I have read in a very long time.”—The New York Times Book Review “An ambitious work of metafiction, a sexy queer love story . . . a bold first novel.”—Entertainment Weekly

Metafiction

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100068525X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Metafiction by : Yaël Schlick

Download or read book Metafiction written by Yaël Schlick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 writings by diverse authors, with particular focus on the contemporary period. 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. Metafiction is an engaging and accessible introduction to a pervasive and influential form and concept in literary studies, and will be of use to all students of literary studies requiring a depth of knowledge in the subject.

Meta in Film and Television Series

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399508067
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Meta in Film and Television Series by : David Roche

Download or read book Meta in Film and Television Series written by David Roche and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of meta-phenomena in film and television series.