{"product_id":"metafiction-9781032019079","title":"Metafiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMetafiction\u003c\/em\u003e explores the great variety and effects of this popular genre and style, variously defined as a type of literature that philosophically questions itself, that repudiates the conventions of literary realism, that questions the relationship between fiction and reality, or that lies at the border between fiction and non-fiction. Yaël Schlick surveys a wide range of metafictional writings by diverse authors, with particular focus on the contemporary period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book asks not only what metafiction is but also what it can do, examining metafictional narratives'' usefulness for exploring the role of art in society, its role in conceptualizing the figure of author and the reader of fiction, its investigation and playfulness with respect to language and linguistic conventions, and its troubling of the boundaries between fact and fiction in historiographic metafiction, autofiction, and autotheory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetafiction is an engaging and accessible introduction t\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Art about Art: Metafictional Narrative and the Role of Art in Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Rethinking the Author and Activating the Reader in Metafiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Ludic Metafiction: On Literature and Language Games\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Historiographic Metafiction: Postmodernism and the Historical Novel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Autofiction: Troubling Autobiographical Assumptions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018795516247,"sku":"9781032019079","price":24.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032019079.jpg?v=1750778177","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/metafiction-9781032019079","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}