* History * Historiographic metafiction * Blurring the line between fact and fiction * The epigraph * Engaging in an act of construction * Grace’s unreliability * Self-conscious construction * Unreliability * Historical context of Grace’s narrative which suggests unreliability [ch10] * Offered a series of stories that are being put together - narrative construction over truth *
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Postmodernism in English literature. 1. Postmodernism in the English literature of the last decades of the 20th century. 2. John Fowles’s novels as an example of postmodern writing. In the 1960s the cultural layers changed and grew confused; the emergence of the mass media and the technological revolution changed the nature of culture and publishing. Here started the era of postmodernism‚ manifesting the philosophical‚ cultural‚ and political instability of the contemporary world‚ and the difficulty
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up from the past for for giving such an account of life as may both relevant and revealing to the contemporary reader. In other words‚his linking of the mythical or cultural past with the living present makes his writing a mythocentric historiographic metafiction. The Firebird’s Nest is one of Rushdie’s recent short stories published in the eight volume of New Writings (1999)‚ an anthology of the best in contemporary literature. Conceived in the mythical image of the Phoenix‚as the title reflects
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Identity Crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient Lerzan Gültekin Atılım University in Ankara‚ Turkey lerzan_gultekin@atilim.edu.tr Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze identity crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient from a postcolonial perspective through the concept of nationalism and national identity‚ emphasizing cultural‚ psychological and physical displacement due to colonization‚ travelling‚ exploration and space / place (cartography)‚ referring to the theories
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Carried: Metafiction Tim O’Brien brings the characters and stories to life in The Things They Carried. He uses a writing style that brings stories to life by posing questions between the relationship of reality and fiction (Calloway 249). This is called metafiction and it exposes the truth through the literary experience. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction to make the characters and stories in The Things They Carried realistically evocative of the Vietnam War. Metafiction is found
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Patricia Waugh‚ Metafiction: The Theory and Practice Methuen‚ London‚ 1984. 153 pp. of SeljTonscious Fiction. Linda Hutcheon‚ Narcissistic Narratiue: The Metafictional Paradox. Methuen‚ London‚ 1984. 162 pp. Metafiction is now recognized as the designation of a kind of fiction - beginning to proliferate in the 1960s - that turns its attention on its own narrative andlor linguistic identity. Too often‚ critics have one-sidedly labeled it as an example of the anti-novel‚ a reaction against
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they could write with sharp wit verbal play and anecdotal verve”. For Christopher Pressler‚ Jeanette Winterson is often described as one of the most controversial yet innovative fiction writers. Postmodernist techniques ‚ modernist tradition‚ metafiction and magical realism are‚ however‚ mere instruments that Winterson deftly combines with a strong political commitment aimed at subverting socio-cultural power structures and ultimately‚ at appropriating traditionally male-defined concepts for her
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author. Calvino demystifies the authority of the author in the novel through the use of metafiction structure and the multiplicity of authors which make the reader aware and critical of the fiction and the author. Calvino presents reading as a subjective process through the multiplicity of reading and deliberate ambiguities which develop the idea of multiple interpretations. Calvino uses self-reflective metafiction to make the reader aware that the novel is purely artificial. If on a winter’s night
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throughout postmodernism stories include magic realism‚ metafiction and irony. Magic realism is where the supernatural is not displayed as questionable. Magic realism differs from fantasy because it is set in a normal‚ modern world with accurate descriptions of humans and a society that does not question it. Another element is Irony. Irony is used in postmodernism literature. Irony is when that which one would not expect occurs is true. Finally‚ Metafiction is a device that self-consciously addresses the
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First of all‚ it is important to be aware of the differences between postmodernism and modernism. While modernism always tries to find a new way to express something‚ postmodernism has no such concern. Modernism itself is representational‚ normative‚ original and Universalist. It has a linear progress. Postmodernism has no concern about being original. Moreover postmodernism claims that there is not possible way to create something brand new anymore. So‚ contrary to modernism’s originality‚ postmodernism
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