Metafiction and the postwar novel : foes, ghosts, and faces in the water / Andrew Dean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dean, Andrew, author.

Series:

Oxford English monographs.

Oxford English monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation.

Coetzee, J. M.

Frame, Janet--Criticism and interpretation.

Frame, Janet.

Roth, Phil, 1930-2002--Criticism and interpretation.

Roth, Phil.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

'Metafiction and the Postwar Novel' is a full-length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period, sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large-scale theorizing, this book centres on the intimacies of writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers, literary reception, and earlier works in a career.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Metafiction and the Postwar Novel: Foes, Ghosts, and Faces in the Water

Copyright

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

1. Quixote and I

2. The Concept of Metafiction

3. Selves of Writing

1: Foes: J. M. Coetzee and His Readers

1. Criticism

2. Towards Dusklands

3. Foe

4. Elizabeth Costello

5. The Archive

2: Faces in the Water: Dependency and Disavowal in Janet Frame

1. Developing Frame

2. Interruptions

3. Distractions

4. Afterlives

3: Ghosts: Philip Roth and Ethnic Writing

1. The Gift of Adversity: towards The Ghost Writer

2. The Anatomy Lesson

3. Operation Shylock

4. Ethnic writing?

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-264482-3

0-19-191430-4

0-19-264481-5

OCLC:

1243543580