Metafiction
By: edited and introduced by Mark Currie.
Contributors: Currie, Mark, 1962-
Series: Longman critical readers
Publisher: New York; Longman
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Fiction -- Technique.; Experimental fiction -- History and criticism.
Description: This volume is the first to collect writings specifically on the subject of metafiction and brings together the best writing from literary criticism and theory on the topic. It offers a new definition of metafiction, moving away from the idea of it being fictional 'self-consciousness' and redefining it as a borderline territory between fiction and criticism.

Following the proliferation of metafiction in the last two decades, with an increasing interpenetration of professional literary criticism and fictional writing, the book emphasises the importance of recent developments in literary theory, historiography and the philosophy of language.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-248) and index.
A collection of articles previously published in various sources, 1967-1990.