Binding: Hardcover
Description: Metafiction and the Postwar Novel is a full - length reassessment of one of the definitive literary forms of the postwar period sometimes known as 'postmodern metafiction'. In the place of large - scale theorizing this book centres on the intimacies of writing situations - metafiction as it responds to readers literary reception and earlier works in a career. The emergence of archival materials and posthumously published works helps to bring into view the stakes of different moments of writing. It develops new terms for discussing literary self - reflexivity derived from a reading of Don Quixote and its reception by J. L. Borges - the 'self of writing and the 'public author as signature'. Across three comprehensive chapters Metafiction and Postwar Fiction shows how some of the most highly - regarded postwar writers were motivated to incorporate reflexive elements into their writing - and to what ends. The first chapter on South African novelist J. M. Coetzee shows with a new clarity how his fictions drew from and relativized academic literary theory and the conditions of writing in apartheid South Africa. The second chapter on New Zealand writer Janet Frame draws widely from her fictions autobiographies and posthumously published materials. It demonstrates the terms in which her writing addresses a readership seemingly convinced that her work expressed the interior experience of 'madness'. The final chapter on American writer Philip Roth shows how his early reception led to his later and often explosive reconsiderations of identity and literary value in postwar America.
Title: Metafiction And The Postwar Novel Foes Ghosts And Faces In The Water
Author(s): Dean Andrew (Lecturer In Writing And Literature Lecturer In Writing And Literature Deakin University Australia)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198871408
Pages: 194 Pages
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers