Narcissistic Narrative : The Metafictional Paradox / Linda Hutcheon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hutcheon, Linda, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--Technique.

Fiction.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 sel

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Modes & Forms of Narrative Narcissism: Introduction of a Typology

Process & Product: The Implications of Metafiction for the Theory of the Novel as a Mimetic Genre

Thematizing Narrative Artifice: Parody, Allegory, & the Mise En Abyme

Freedom Through Artifice: The French Lieutenants Woman

Actualizing Narrative Structures: Detective Plot, Fantasy, Games, & the Erotic

The Language of Fiction: Creating the Heterocosm of Fictive Referents

The Theme of Linguistic identity: La Maccina Modiale

Generative Word Play: The Outer Limits of the Novel Genre

Composite Identity: The Reader, the Writer, the Critic

Conclusion & Speculations.

Notes:

Originally published: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©1980. This edition includes a new preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-55458-910-X

1-55458-908-8

OCLC:

756484094