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Similarly one has to learn to read-actively, imaginatively-in order to enjoy the demanding fiction of today,\" says the author.  \nContemporary self-reflexive novels demand that the reader participate in the fictional process as imaginative co-creator. At the same time, they distance the reader by their textual selfconsciousness . Like Narcissus in the Greek myth, the novel of today is intensely aware of its own existence, continuously drawing attention to its own storytelling processes and linguistic structures . The author analyzes four different modes of \"narcissistic\" fiction, revealing an extensive awareness of the arts in North America and Europe, quoting intensively from English, French, and Italian sources . Her clear, incisive discussion of literary forms and contemporary criticism, and the conclusions she draws about the link between art and life, will interest creators and students of literature and the other arts .  \nLinda Hutcheon is Assistant Professor of English at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. She received the [Ph.D. degree](Ph.D. degree) in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. Her articles and essayson both literary theory and individual writers have appeared internationally in journals, and in various books and essay collections.  \nBibliothèque de la Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, vol. 5 Library of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, vol. 5  \nDIRECTEUR/EDITOR: M. V. Dimić, Alberta  \nSECRÉTAIRE DE RÉDACTION/EDITORIAL SECRETARY: E. D. Blodgett, Alberta  \nCOMITÉ DE PATRONAGE/ ADVISORY BOARD  \nJ. E. Bencheikh, Paris/Alger  \nR. K. DasGupta, Delhi  \nJ. Ferraté, Alberta  \nN. Frye, Toronto  \nH. G. Gadamer, Heidelberg  \nC. Guillén, San Diego  \nG. Hartman, Yale  \nT. Klaniczay, Budapest  \nA. Viatte, Zürich/Paris  \nP. Zumthor, Montréal  \nCOMITÉ DE REDACTION/ EDITORIAL COMMITTEE  \nR. Bourneuf, Lava1  \nP. Chavy, Dalhousie  \nL. Doležel, Toronto  \nM. Goetz-Stankiewicz, British Columbia  \nV. Graham, Toronto  \nE. J. H. Greene, Alberta  \nC. Hamlin, Toronto  \nE. Heier, Waterloo  \nE. Kushner, McGill  \nP. Merivale, British Columbia  \nI. Schuster, McGill  \nR. Sutherland, Sherbrooke  \nM. J. Valdés, Toronto  \nE. Vance, Montréal  \n1 E. J. H. Greene. Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1977. Pp. 201; $10.00  \n2,3 M. V. Dimić and E. Kushner, with J. Ferraté and R. Struc, eds. Proceedings of the VIIth Congress of the ICLA/Actes du VIIe Congrès del'AILC [MontrealOttawa  \n1973] . Budapest: Akadémai Kiadó; Stuttgart: Kunst and Wissen, 1979. Pp. 562 and 728; DM 213.00 (prepublication subscription price $50 .00)  \n4 Mario J. Valdés and Owen J. Miller, eds. Interpretation of 􀀰arrative. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1978; $15.00  \n5 Linda Hutcheon. 􀀰arcissistic 􀀰arrative: The Metafictional Paradox. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980; $9.25  \n6 Nina Kolesnikoff. Bruno Jasieński: His evolution from Futurism to Socialist Realism. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980  \nNARCISSISTIC NARRATIVE THE METAFICTIONAL PARADOX  \nLINDA HUTCHEON  \nNarcissistic Narrative The Metafictional Paradox  \nWilfrid Laurier University Press  \nCanadian Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nHutcheon, Linda, 1947-Narcissistic narrative  \nIncludes index.  \nISBN 0-88920-102-1 (bound)  \n1. Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism.  \n2. Fiction - Technique. 3. Narration (Rhetoric) .  \n4. Narcissism in literature. I. Title.  \nPN3365 .H87 809.3’04 C81-094091-4  \nCopyright © 1980  \nWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nWaterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5 80 81 82 83 4 3 2 1  \n􀀰o part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system, translated or reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, micro","cbCaink5dbJ5dhfY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaink5dbJ5dhfY","pdf",1911468,182,"English","# Introduction\n## A Typology of Narrative Narcissism\n## Metafiction and the Novel as a Mimetic Genre\n## Parody, Allegory, and the Mise En Abyme\n## Freedom Through Artifice: The French Lieutenant's Woman\n## Detective Plot, Fantasy, Games, and the Erotic\n## The Heterocosm of Fictive Referents\n## Linguistic Identity: La Macchina Mondiale\n## Generative Word Play and the Limits of the Novel Genre\n## Composite Identity: The Reader, the Writer, the Critic\n# Index of Subjects and Names","[{\"question\":\"What does the book argue about reader participation in contemporary self-reflexive novels?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that demanding fiction of today requires readers to read actively and imaginatively, functioning as co-creators in the fictional process.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the novel’s self-consciousness affect the reader?\",\"answer\":\"While it invites participation, its textual self-consciousness also distances the reader by drawing attention to storytelling processes and linguistic structures.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the organizational focus of the chapters?\",\"answer\":\"The chapters develop a typology of narrative narcissism, moving from definitions and metafictional theory to specific thematic and structural modes such as parody, narrative artifice, linguistic identity, and composite identity involving reader, writer, and critic.\"}]","Narcissistic Narrative - The Metafictional Paradox | PDF",1789779238,280]