Interpreting Great Classics of Literature As Metatheatre and Metafiction [electronic resource] : Ovid, Beowulf, Corneille, Racine, Wieland, Stoppard, and Rushdie

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallagher, David.

Contributor:

Gallagher, David, Contributor.

Series:

Studies in comparative literature Interpreting great classics of literature as metatheatre and metafiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Adaptations--History and criticism.

Literature.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (179 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines a variety of comparative literary texts from different periods, literary traditions and cultures that are drawn on to examine metatheatricality and metafictionality. Metatheatre and metafiction are considered for their interrelation, impact and correspondence with seventeenth century French drama, the eighteenth century German novel, twentieth century English drama, an old English epic text, Indian postmodernist fiction, as well as Greek and Roman Classical works of antiquity.

Contents:

Title Page; Copyright Page; List of Abbreviations; Table of Contents; Dedication; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One Metatheatre on Metatheatre: Kushner of Corneille; Chapter Two Metatheatre and Philosophy: Tom Stoppard and the Juggling of Ideas; Chapter Three Jean Racine's and Matthew Maguire's Pahedras; Chapter Four Metaliterary Metaphor in Ovid's Metamorphoses; Chapter Five Manifesting Beowulf's Meta-Monsters; Chapter Six Rushdie's Metafictional Extravaganza: Storytelling in the Enchantress of Florence and Midnight's Children

Chapter Seven Metafiction in Wieland's Geschichte des AgathonNotes; Bibliography

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-2055-X

OCLC:

779165233