Beyond the metafictional mode : directions in the modern Spanish novel /

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The term metafiction invaded the vocabulary of literary criticism around 1970, yet the textual strategies involved in turning fiction back onto itself can be traced through several centuries. In this theoretical/critical study Robert C. Spires examines the nature of metafiction and chronicles its ev...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Spires, Robert C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [1984]
Series:Studies in Romance languages (Lexington, Ky.) ; 30.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Spanish fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Fiction > Technique.
Roman espagnol > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Spanish fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The metafictional mode
  • Violations and pseudo-violations: Quijote, Buscón, and "la novela en el tranvía"
  • Fiction on a palimpsest: Niebla
  • Codes versus modes: Locura y muerte de nadie and La novia del viento
  • Rebellion against models: Don Juan and Orestes
  • Process as product: Juan sin Tierra
  • Reading-into-being: La cólera de Aquiles
  • Product preceding process: El cuarto de atrás.

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