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Modern Language Quarterly 10335742.
Published: 15 March 2023
...Wendy Allison Lee Abstract This essay examines the work of detail in contemporary Asian American metafiction by reconsidering Georg Lukács’s understanding of description as a mode of fiction that transforms humans into observers and objects via an excess of detail. Lukács’s work has informed views...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2017) 78 (4): 517–538.
Published: 01 December 2017
... historical novel. Atkinson’s novels are often cited as examples of postmodern metafiction, but in fact her work is more directly indebted to modernist experiments in counterfactual historical writing by figures like Virginia Woolf. Moreover, this inheritance, inasmuch as it informs Atkinson’s focus...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 602–606.
Published: 01 December 2016
... rereaders” (186). Lynch advances a similarly metafictional reading when she turns her attention to gothic romance. Here she identifies numerous variations on the theme of book love: the discovery of old manuscripts, the appearance of inscriptions, the use of libraries as narrative points of origin...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2002) 63 (1): 89–118.
Published: 01 March 2002
... of the
most radical avant-gardists. His short stories, mostly written in the late
1980s, have been touted as a “paradigmatic symbol of avant-garde fic-
tion,”4 yet his novels and stories of the 1990s have largely effaced the
elaborate formal devices of metafiction and have become best-sellers...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2021) 82 (3): 345–369.
Published: 01 September 2021
... These authors’ complex and nuanced understanding of truth and the universal differentiates biofiction from historiographical metafiction. In her magisterial study A Poetics of Postmodernism Linda Hutcheon ( 1988 ) defines historiographical metafiction as a literary form that installs a truth system about...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2014) 75 (3): 411–437.
Published: 01 September 2014
... and Windus . Mallios Peter Lancelot . 2010 . Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Mwangi Evan Maina . 2009 . Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality . Albany : State University of New York Press . Nazareth...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2015) 76 (2): 119–136.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of the unexpected, of certain disaster averted. Escapism is the predominant theme of the contemporary epic—comic books—which has lately achieved a strange cultural dominance in this young century. Michael Chabon’s Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay follows the creators of the metafictional Escapist...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 87–90.
Published: 01 March 2010
...” of the familiar through
irony, parody, and travesty — and thus an estranging “lack of respect for all
valued conventions” (69) that caused at least alienating surprise, if not real
shock. From the visual artwork of the Italian transavanguardia to self-reflexive
parodic metafiction, postmodernism is said...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 90–94.
Published: 01 March 2010
...” of the familiar through
irony, parody, and travesty — and thus an estranging “lack of respect for all
valued conventions” (69) that caused at least alienating surprise, if not real
shock. From the visual artwork of the Italian transavanguardia to self-reflexive
parodic metafiction, postmodernism is said...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 94–97.
Published: 01 March 2010
...” of the familiar through
irony, parody, and travesty — and thus an estranging “lack of respect for all
valued conventions” (69) that caused at least alienating surprise, if not real
shock. From the visual artwork of the Italian transavanguardia to self-reflexive
parodic metafiction, postmodernism is said...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 97–102.
Published: 01 March 2010
...” of the familiar through
irony, parody, and travesty — and thus an estranging “lack of respect for all
valued conventions” (69) that caused at least alienating surprise, if not real
shock. From the visual artwork of the Italian transavanguardia to self-reflexive
parodic metafiction, postmodernism is said...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2010) 71 (1): 102–106.
Published: 01 March 2010
...” of the familiar through
irony, parody, and travesty — and thus an estranging “lack of respect for all
valued conventions” (69) that caused at least alienating surprise, if not real
shock. From the visual artwork of the Italian transavanguardia to self-reflexive
parodic metafiction, postmodernism is said...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2020) 81 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 June 2020
... of Roth’s career: his often metafictional engagement with the critical categories—biography, ethnic identity, authenticity—that he expected critics to use to appraise his fiction. For while the discourse of lateness has proved inviting for criticism on Roth’s career (Nadel 2013 ; Shipe 2009 ), the effects...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1981) 42 (1): 3–20.
Published: 01 March 1981
...
for another, whether the two be in sequence, as in binary forms, or en-
meshed one in another.18
What binary form eventually means in Boccaccio is a form that in it-
self encapsulates the process of creating art from experience, stories
from life. This is not to say that the book is “metafiction...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (3): 395–418.
Published: 01 September 2016
... than it was even at the height of its classical period in the early 19th century.” Anderson’s account accords with the increased scholarly attention in recent decades to modes such as “historiographic metafiction” (Hutcheon 1988 : 5), “postcolonial rewrite” (Marx 2004 : 83), and the new...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (2): 191–213.
Published: 01 June 1994
... to assume abstract competent readers
and reliable narrators-impersonal, independent, but sharing the
same public space. Thus, the metafictional structures that intersect
with the story are not just about the pleasures and paradoxes of
reading, but about writing and reading as social practices...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (3): 391–413.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., as in metalanguage and metafiction. In this year systematic reflec-
tion on narrative — narratology — makes its appearance, not once but
twice, in two disparate contexts: in its classic French form in a special
issue of the journal Communications and simultaneously in an American
publication, Robert Scholes...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2008) 69 (4): 533–556.
Published: 01 December 2008
..., 1987), 149.
Mukherjee Death of the Novel 535
function. Naipaul and Coetzee revisit forms, figures, and themes of
classic fiction to write innovative metafictions of the loss of the novel’s
ability to represent.
“Passion and the Abyss”: Naipaul Shadows Conrad...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 115–117.
Published: 01 March 2013
... that resulted — imaginary portraiture, heteronymity, mock diaries,
and pseudobiographies, just to name a few — has become the basis for mod-
ernist innovation and hence for the “auto/biographic metafictions” essential
to postmodern literature (494). This inspired genealogy turns on Saunders’s
revisionist...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 118–121.
Published: 01 March 2013
... diaries,
and pseudobiographies, just to name a few — has become the basis for mod-
ernist innovation and hence for the “auto/biographic metafictions” essential
to postmodern literature (494). This inspired genealogy turns on Saunders’s
revisionist account of the relationship between impressionism...
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