Metafiction in the 1960’s (The Sixties in America)
The Movement
Because traditional literary forms did not adequately reflect the
social upheaval of the 1960’s, experimental authors chose to go
beyond the idea that fiction should mimic reality. Instead,
postmodernist writers embraced a kind of self-conscious fiction that
examined the very process by which fiction is created. Few notable
examples of metafiction
existed before the late 1950’s. One rare early model is
Tristram Shandy (1759-1767) by Laurence Sterne. [The entire page is 1084 words long]
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