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Narcissistic Narrative : The Metafictional Paradox /
Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such a develo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Waterloo, Ont. :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such a development for both the theory of the novel and reading theory. Having placed this phenomenon in its historical context Linda Hutcheon uses the insights of various reader-response theories to explore the "paradox" created by metafiction: the reader is, at the same time, co-creator of the sel. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980. This edition includes new preface with new front and end matter. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781554589081 |