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Ong  \nPoetry as Discourse Antony Easthope  \nNarrative Fiction: Contemporary poetics Shlomith RimmonKenan  \nLiterature and Propaganda A. P. Foulkes  \nReception Theory: A Critical Introduction Robert C. Holub Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice Elizabeth Wright Alternative Shakespeares Edited by John Drakakis  \nMaking a Difference: Feminist Literary Criticism Edited by Gayle Greene and Coppélia Kahn  \nSexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory Toril Moi  \nRewriting English: Cultural Politics of Gender and Class Janet Batsleer, Tony Davies, Rebecca O’Rourke and Chris Weedon  \nThe Unusable Past: Theory and the Study of American Literature Russell J. Reising  \nLiterature, Politics and Theory: Papers from the Essex Conference 1976-1984 Edited by Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Diana Loxley and Margaret Iversen  \nPopular Fictions: Essays in Literature and History Edited by Peter Widdowson, Peter Humm and Paul Stigant  \nCriticism in Society Imre Salusinszky  \nThe Return of the Reader: Reader-response Criticism Elizabeth Freund  \nSuperstructuralism: The Philosophy of Structuralism and Poststructuralism Richard Harland  \n* Not available from Routledge, Chapman and Hall, [Inc. in](Inc. in) the USA  \nMetafiction  \nThe Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction  \nPATRICIA WAUGH  \nLondon and New York  \nFirst published in 1984 by Methuen & Co. Ltd  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.© 1984 Patricia Waugh  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Waugh, Patricia.  \nMetafiction.—(New accents)  \n1. Fiction—Technique 2. Rhetoric  \nI. Title II. Series  \n808.3 PN3355  \nISBN 0-416-32630-7 (Print Edition)  \nISBN 0-415-03006-4 Pbk  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Waugh, Patricia.  \nMetafiction: the theory and practice of self-conscious fiction.(New accents)  \nBibliography: p.  \nIncludes index  \n1. Fiction. I. Title. II. Series: New accents  \nPN 333. 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The ontological status of literary-fictional discourse 87  \nëT","cbCaih30cRz4LsMW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih30cRz4LsMW","pdf",1436424,187,"English","# Contents\n## General editor preface\n## Acknowledgements\n## What is metafiction and why are they saying such awful things about it?\n## Literary self-consciousness: developments\n## Literary evolution: the place of parody\n## Are novelists liars? The ontological status of literary-fictional discourse\n## Fictionality and context: from role-playing to language games\n## Bibliography\n## Further reading\n## Index","[{\"question\":\"What does the book mean by metafiction?\",\"answer\":\"Metafiction is presented as self-conscious fiction that reflects on its own construction and its varieties within the novel tradition and contemporary avant-garde.\"},{\"question\":\"How does parody function in metafiction?\",\"answer\":\"Parody is treated as a key method involving both creation and critique, linked to the development of the novel and the use of popular forms.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book address truth and reference in fictional discourse?\",\"answer\":\"It explores whether telling stories involves lying, alongside questions of reference, naming, the existence of characters, and theories of falsity and non-predication, including ideas about alternative worlds.\"}]","Metafiction - The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction | PDF",1789979349,288]