postmodern metafiction

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[LukkyKnight]

Metafiction would be those works which systematically draw attention to their nature to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality, right?

Postmodernist writing tends to often use irony to mock modernist "pretensions" regarding order through language, and
shows (or attempts to show) instead the "inevitable" breakdown of the language, signalling a belief that it and the world are beyond repair.

Got it?

Good, 'cause I don't, so please don't quote me.

 

[Olivianna]

Maybe start at Waugh. Also, contact your professor and talk with him/her to get ideas and further clarification.


Baudrillard, Jean. SELECTED WRITINGS.
Bertens, Hans. THE IDEA OF THE POSTMODERN: A HISTORY.
Couturier, Maurice. REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE IN POSTMODERN FICTION.
Fokkema, Douwe, ed. LITERARY HISTORY, MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM.
Foster, Hal, ed. THE ANTI-AESTHETIC.
Habermas, Jurgen, THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY.
Harvey, David. THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY.
Hutcheon, Linda. NARCISSISTIC NARRATIVE: THE METAFICTIONAL PARADOX.
Klinkowitz, Jerome. LITERARY DISRUPTIONS.
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. THE POSTMODERN CONDITION.
McCaffery, Larry. THE METAFICTIONAL MUSE: THE WORKS OF
ROBERT COOVER, DONALD BARTHELME, AND WILLIAM H. GASS.
McGowan, John. POSTMODERNISM AND ITS CRITICS.
Scholes, Robert. FABULATION AND METAFICTION.
Waugh, Patricia. FEMININE FICTIONS: REVISITING THE POSTMODERN.
---. METAFICTION.

 

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[eagleyez]

academic mumbo jumbo

follow your heart thru your books

ive slummed around enough English Depts to know your better off in a good bar with a pool table and a juke box

thats metafiction for ya...


*chalks up the cue*

 

[eagleyez]

Maybe start at Waugh. Also, contact your professor and talk with him/her to get ideas and further clarification.


Baudrillard, Jean. SELECTED WRITINGS.
Bertens, Hans. THE IDEA OF THE POSTMODERN: A HISTORY.
Couturier, Maurice. REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE IN POSTMODERN FICTION.
Fokkema, Douwe, ed. LITERARY HISTORY, MODERNISM, POSTMODERNISM.
Foster, Hal, ed. THE ANTI-AESTHETIC.
Habermas, Jurgen, THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY.
Harvey, David. THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY.
Hutcheon, Linda. NARCISSISTIC NARRATIVE: THE METAFICTIONAL PARADOX.
Klinkowitz, Jerome. LITERARY DISRUPTIONS.
Lyotard, Jean-Francois. THE POSTMODERN CONDITION.
McCaffery, Larry. THE METAFICTIONAL MUSE: THE WORKS OF
ROBERT COOVER, DONALD BARTHELME, AND WILLIAM H. GASS.
McGowan, John. POSTMODERNISM AND ITS CRITICS.
Scholes, Robert. FABULATION AND METAFICTION.
Waugh, Patricia. FEMININE FICTIONS: REVISITING THE POSTMODERN.
---. METAFICTION.

good list O

 

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[eagleyez]

it's a required class...
i'd much rather be doing physics

grabbing a stick and showing ya what the academic mumbo jumbo of physics can do for a pool game

me comprendo

*puts quarters on the rail*

um, eight ball for drinks?

 

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[eagleyez]

ok...you're on
ladies first?

you break baby...

lean into it

i will turn up the jukebox

 

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[Hamletmaschine]

You could always write your research paper about the impossibility of writing a research paper.

Depending on your professor's mood, you'd get an "A" or an "F."

 

[Raving Raven]

Depending on your professor's mood, you'd get an "A" or an "F."

Professors are still allowed to give F's?

Can't they get fired for that?

 

[LukkyKnight]

ive slummed around enough English Depts to know your better off in a good bar with a pool table and a juke box

That's usually where the cool professors are, anyway. From their relaxed revelations flow the inspirations for the structures of papers they wish they had written themselves as undergrads.

 

[Olivianna]

You could always write your research paper about the impossibility of writing a research paper.

Depending on your professor's mood, you'd get an "A" or an "F."

I actually did that in college for my cultural anthro honors project. Got an A- .