UGHHHHHHHHHH
my head is spinning after tonite's lecture, please, anyone shed ANY light on this, i thought i had it but...no
UGHHHHHHHHHH
my head is spinning after tonite's lecture, please, anyone shed ANY light on this, i thought i had it but...no
Are you referring to meta-narrative? A historical meta-novel might be very interesting to read, but I can't think of any.
Hi Oedipusred,
my advice is not to get too worked up about metafiction. Get it straight in your own head first. Keep it simple. Don't worry! All metafiction is is a kind of fiction that openly draws attention to its own fictional status.TRISTRAM SHANDY is the classic English example.Postmodern novelists and writers often resort to metafiction eg Borges. So too, come to think of it, is THE COMFORTERS by Muriel Spark.As is AT SWIM TWO BIRDS by Flann O'Brien. I hope that this is not telling you things you already know well. My apologies if this is the case.
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no no, that helps actually, i was starting to seperate the more normal historical novel from historical metafiction
so basically it's a historical novel with a postmodern twist, metafiction usually draws attention to itself as narrative or... say construct, so historical metafiction does the same in a historical context...except that it draws questions to the history or historical structure rather then just the fiction...?
i think i'm starting to get it...lol
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