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Editor:  \nSTAN SMrTH,Professor of English,University of Dundee  \nPublished titles:  \nK.M.NiwTON,George Eliot  \nMARY EAGLETON,Feminist Liferary Criticism  \nGARY WAJ,LER,Shakespeare's Comedies  \nJoHN DRAKAKIS,Shakespearean Tragedy  \nRiCHARI)WJSON AND RICHARD DurrON,New Historicism and RenaissanceDrama  \nPETER BROOKER,Modernism/Postmodernism  \nPFTER WIDDowSON,D.H.Lawrence  \nRACHEI.BoWIBY,Virginia Woolf  \nFRANCIS MULHERN,Confemporary Marxist Literary Criticism  \nANNABEL PATTERSON,John Milton  \nCYNTHIA CHASE,Romanticism  \nMICHAELONEIL₁.,Shelley  \nSTEPHANIE TRICC,Medieval English Poetry  \nANTONY EASTHOT;,Contemporary Film Theory  \nTERRY EAGIETON,ldeology  \nMARK CURRIE,Metafiction  \nMETAFICTION  \nEdited and Introduced by  \nMARK CURRIE  \niirst published 1995 by Longman (iroup Limited  \nPublished 2013by Routledge  \n2 Park Square,Milton Park,Abingdon,(xonOX144RN711 Third Avenue,New York,NY 10017,USA  \nRoudlerdye is an imprint cf the Tiayloré firancis Gnup,an informa Frsiness  \nCopyrighr1995,Taylor &Jirancis.  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or uti-lised in any forn or by any clectranic,mechanical,or other means,tow knownor hereafterinventedincluding pholocopying and recording,cr in any infaor-mation storage or retrieval system,without permissicn in writing Irom tepublishers.  \nNotices  \nKnowledge and best practice in this lield are constantly changing.As new research and experience broaden our understanding.changes in research nethods,professioral practices,or zedical trealmenL inay become necessitry.  \nPraclilioners and researchers musl always rely on their own experience andkrowledge in evaluating and using any infornaticon,nethods,conpounds,orexperiments described herein.In using such information or methods theyshould be mindful ef their own safety and the safety of others,including partiesfor whon they have a professional responsibility.  \nTo the fullest extent of the law,neither the Publisher nur the authors,contribu-tors,or editors,assume any liability for any injury and/or dlamage to persons orproperty as a matter of products liabilitynegligence or otherwise,or from anyuse or operation of any methods,products,nstructions,o ideas contained inthe material hercin.  \nJSBN 13:978-0-582-21292-3(pbk)  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book isavailable from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nApplied for.  \nContents  \nGeneral Editor's PrefaceviiAcknowledgementsix  \nIntroduction  \n1  \nPART ONE:DEFINING METAFICTION  \n1 ROBERT ScHOI.ES Metafiction  \n21  \n2 PATRICIA WALGH What is metafiction and why are theysaying such awful things about it?  \n39  \n55  \n3 GERALD PRINCE Metanarrative signs  \nPART TWO:HISTORIOGRAPHIC METAFICTION  \n4 LIDA HLTCHEON Historiographic metafiction71  \n5 SUSANA ONEGA British historiographic metafiction92  \n6 HAYDEN WHITE The question of narrative in contemporaryhistorical theory  \n104  \nPART THREE:THE WRITER/CRITIC  \n7 DAVID LoLGE The novel now145  \n8 JoHN BARTH The literature of exhaustion161  \n9 UMBERTO Eco From Reflections on the Name of ihe Rose172  \nPART FOUR:READINGS OF METAFICTION  \n10 LARRY McCAlFERY The art of metafiction  \n181  \n11 RAYMOND A.MAZURIK Mctafiction,the historical novel andCoover's Tle Public Buing  \n194  \n12 FREDERICK M.HoLMES The novel,illusion and reality:theparadox of onniscience in The French Lieutenant's Woman  \n206  \n13 ELIZABETI DIPPLE A nove!which is a machine for generatinginterpretations  \n221  \nBibliography  \n246  \nIndex  \n249  \nThis page intenrionally left blank  \nGeneral Editors'Preface  \nThe outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as astandard feature of a degree in litcrary studies.The developmcnt ofparticular theories has seen a thorough transformation of literary criticism.For example,Marxist and Foucauldian theories have 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