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Event summary: The conference focuses on metafiction, taken to cover any fiction which represents itself as a fiction. Because metafictions acknowledge their own status as fictions, they are sometimes known as ‘reflexive’ or ‘self-conscious’ fictions ...
Caddick Bourne, Emily
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METAFICTION IN THE NOVELS NIŠAN (2007) BY BLAŽE MINEVSKI AND KNJIGA O TARI (2004) BY ZDENKO LEŠIĆ
Fluminensia: Journal for Philological Research, 2017 The subject of this text are metafictional elements in the novels Nišan (2007) by Blaže Minevski and Knjiga o Tari (2004) by Zdenko Lešić. Starting from the theoretical models of metafiction (Linda Hutcheon, Patricia Waugh, Mark Currie), our comparative ...
Marija Gjorgjieva Dimova
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Subverting or Reasserting? Westworld (2016-) as an Ambiguous Critical Allegory of Gender Struggles
452ºF, 2021 This article analyses the first three seasons of HBO’s Westworld (2016-2020) by considering them a critical allegory of gender relations. In so doing, the text pays special attention to the self-reflexive construction of its SF worlds, and to two of the ...
Miguel Sebastián-Martín
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Attention and Mind-Wandering in Contemporary German Children’s and Young Adult Metafiction
Diegesis: Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung, 2022 In this article, we draw upon cognitive sciences, narratology, and media studies to investigate the interrelation between metafiction, attention, and mind-wandering in two works of German children’s and young adult metafiction: Michael Ende’s Die ...
Amandus Hopfgarten, Theresa Krampe
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NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2016 This article examines two American books for children: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (1851) and Elizabeth Stoddard’s Lolly Dinks’s Doings (1874).
Maria Holmgren Troy
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Seeking an Aesthetics of Metafiction [PDF]
, 2006 According the Oxford English Dictionary, metafiction is ‘fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions…and narrative techniques.’ In short ...
Vachon, Erin J.
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Dodging the Literary Undertaker – Biographic Metafiction in Hanif Kureishi’s The Last Word
Prague Journal of English Studies, 2017 Hanif Kureishi’s 2014 novel, The Last Word, involves most of the author’s idiosyncratic themes, such as ethnicity, racism, sexual identity, examination of interpersonal relationships and the crucial role of the creative imagination in human life.
Chalupský Petr
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Metaficción. Revisión histórica del concepto en la crítica literaria colombiana
Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, 2011 Resumen: a manera de historia conceptual, se revisa el concepto de metaficción en la crítica literaria colombiana. Para tal propósito, se presenta una aproximación, desde la teoría literaria, del concepto de metaficción y una revisión de la manera ...
Clemencia Ardila J.
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Le cadeau, témoin d’amour dans les contes de fées (xviie‑xviiie siècles) : un pacte ambivalent
Fééries, 2022 The key in Perrault’s “La Barbe bleue” is not a real gift, it is in reality a dangerous test that aims to reveal the truth about the spouse. But it is also a metaphorical key to the tale: it acts as a revelator on the one who offers it rather than on the
Guilhem Armand
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Metafiction in Contemporary Chinese Literature [PDF]
, 2011 ix, 106 p.This thesis focuses on the metafictional elements in selected works of the contemporary Chinese authors Gao Xingjian, Huang Jinshu, and Wang Xiaobo.
Kaiser, Marjolijn, 1984-
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