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METAFICTIONAL CONFUSION ON THE TERM METAFICTION

open access: greenZeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2013
This article deals with the complexities that arise from the definitions of metafiction and the approaches to it, and tries to reach a more general and comprehensive definition by studying them.
Ayça Ören
doaj   +2 more sources

The study of historical meta-information in Al-Mutanabbi's suffering with perfection of Kamal Aboudib and vice versa [PDF]

open access: yesنقد ادب معاصر عربی, 2021
Metafiction is a form of literature that emphasizes its own artificiality in a way that continually reminds the reader of the fictitiousness of the work.
Fatemeh Piri   +2 more
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Metafiction, a Postmodernism Method: Case Study of Tamashaye Yek Royaye Tabah Shode (Watching a Wrecked Dream) Novel by Bijan Bijari [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2021
Metafiction is a story about the process of writing a story in which the author deliberately and by revealing the craft of writing emphasizes the unreal and fiction of his story.
Sima Poormoradi, Reza Sadeghi Shahpar
doaj   +1 more source

The pragmatic study of metafiction in Preeti Shenoy’s ‘The Secret Wish List’ and ‘It Happens for A Reason’

open access: yesStudies in English Language and Education, 2022
This study aims to spotlight the postmodern tendency of metafiction in Preeti Shenoy’s selected texts. Metafiction is self-conscious in relation to language, literary form, and storytelling in fiction.
D Pandeeswari   +2 more
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Historiographic Metafiction in The Postmodern Arabic and Latin novel: in Mawt Saġīr and Sāʿī Barīd Nayrūdā

open access: yesJournal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature, 2021
This paper discusses the representation of historiographic metafiction in the postmodern Arabic and Latin novel. Linda Hutcheon coined the term of Historiographic metafiction.
Mohammed Alshammari
doaj   +1 more source

Classification of Metafictional Features: Focusing on Short Circuit and Exposing the Literary Technique [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2018
Metafiction is a postmodern story writing technique that has many complexities due to its predisposing features. Theoreticians, such as David Lodge and Brian McHale, have identified these features, but until now, no classifications have been provided ...
Fateme Dejban, Bahador Bagheri
doaj   +1 more source

Daghoughi, the Postmodern Metafiction [PDF]

open access: yesادبیات عرفانی, 2017
Metafiction is one of the modern approaches of story writing in postmodern fiction whose origin is generally assumed to date back to the twentieth century.
Zahra Rajabi
doaj   +1 more source

A novel for an ageing population? Masculinity and demographic shift in David Lodge's Deaf Sentence (2008)

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 20, Issue 10-12, October-December 2023., 2023
Abstract This article examines David Lodge's novel Deaf Sentence (2008), which focuses on the life of Desmond, a retired professor of linguistics. I argue that this text offers a standpoint through which readers can visualise the global phenomenon of population ageing and address the question of global responsibility. I look at Deaf Sentence within the
Stefano Rossoni
wiley   +1 more source

“Fourth‐wall breakiness or whatevs”: Presumed self‐awareness in American superhero comics

open access: yesThe Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 56, Issue 3-4, Page 673-688, June/August 2023., 2023
Abstract Studies on reflexivity in the field of comics studies have been scarce and, more often than not, disconnected from each other, which has resulted in overlapping, and sometimes even contradicting, classifications of reflexive devices. Therefore, this article analyzes different instances of self‐awareness in American superhero comics, as it has ...
Lucía Bausela Buccianti
wiley   +1 more source

THE (QUEER) AESTHETICS OF JEAN PAUL'S SIEBENKÄS

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 198-221, April 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT This article proposes that the eighteenth‐century novel Siebenkäs contains the formulation of an aesthetic theory that embraces same‐sex desire. The novel's author, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, still relatively unknown among literary scholars today, uses the myth of Narcissus as an aesthetic blueprint for the novel.
Anchit Sathi
wiley   +1 more source

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