Metafiction
Subtitle: The Theory and Practice of Self- Concious Fiction New Accents Library Collection
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 14, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780415291330
First sentence: If asked to point out the similarities amongst this disconcerting selection of quotations, most readers would immediately list two or three of the following: a celebration of the power of the creative imagination together with an uncertainty about the validity of its representations; an extreme self-consciousness about language, literary form and the act of writing fictions; a pervasive insecurity about the relationship of fiction to reality; a parodic, playful, excessive or deceptively naive style of writing.