Metafiction

Metafiction Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Reader-Response Criticism and Literary Realism
  • The Metafictional Anti-Detective Novel
  • What Is Metafiction and Why Are They Saying Such Awful Things about It?
  • Metafictional Implications for Novelistic Reference
  • Metafiction and the Poetics of Children's Literature
• Criticism: Spanish Metafiction
  • Metafiction and the Contemporary Spanish Novel
  • Violations and Pseudo-Violations: Quijote, Buscón, and ‘La novella en el tranvía’
  • Rebellion against Models: Don Juan and Orestes
  • Fiction and Metafiction in Contemporary Spanish Letters
  • Split Referentiality and the Making of Character in Recent Spanish Metafiction
  • Turning La incógnita into Realidad: Galdós's Metafictional Magic Trick
• Criticism: Studies Of Metafictional Authors And Works
  • Malcolm Lowry's Metafiction: The Biography of a Genre
  • Borges, Bertolucci, and Metafiction
  • John Barth's Metafictional Redemption
  • Metafiction, the Historical Novel, and Coover's The Public Burning
  • A Symbolic Center in a Conceptual Country: A Gassian Rubric for The Sound and the Fury
  • Auto-Bio-Graphy as Metafiction: Peter Handke's A Sorrow beyond Dreams
  • Fiction as Its Own Subject: An Essay and Two Examples—Anderson's ‘Death in the Woods’ and Weaver's ‘The Parts of Speech.’
  • Stardust Memories, The Purple Rose of Cairo, and the Tradition of Metafiction
  • Phantastes as Metafiction: George MacDonald's Self-Reflexive Myth
  • Wor(l)ds within Words: Doris Lessing as Meta-Fictionist and Meta-Physician
  • (En)gendering Metafiction: Doris Lessing's Rehearsals for The Golden Notebook
  • ‘Rose and Janet’: Alice Munro's Metafiction
• Further Reading