 | Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, José Angel García Landa - 1996 - 486 pagini
...believable, and her shortcomings are forgiven. As Patricia Waugh says, Contemporary metafictional writing is both a response and a contribution to an even more...constructions, artifices, impermanent structures. (1984: 7) The technique of alternating "frame and frame-break (or the construction of an illusion through... | |
 | Magali Cornier Michael, Margaret Atwood - 1996 - 296 pagini
...inherently provisional. Through its use of a self-conscious narrator, the novel presents reality as "no longer a world of eternal verities but a series of constructions, artifices, impermanent structures."27 Knowledge rests on assumptions or provisional truths that are continually shifting and... | |
 | Santiago Juan-Navarro - 2000 - 380 pagini
...novel itself."54 What distinguishes the self-consciousness of much contemporary fiction is the new sense that "reality or history are provisional: no...a series of constructions, artifices, impermanent structures."55 Other critics who have dealt extensively with these topics include Gerald Graff (Literature... | |
 | Robert T. Self - 2002 - 368 pagini
...receprion, or theit enunciation" (Stam xiii). Patricia Waugh wrires: Conremporary metafictional writing is both a response and a contribution to an even more...reality or history are provisional: no longer a world of erernal verities but a series of constructions, artifices, impermanent structures. The marerialist,... | |
 | Carme Manuel, Paul S. Derrick - 2003 - 556 pagini
...Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction that "contemporary metafictional writing is both a response and a contribution to an even more...reality or history are provisional: no longer a world of external verities but a series of constructions, artifices, impermanent structures" (7). Thinking experientially... | |
 | Martha Tuck Rozett - 2003 - 220 pagini
...apparently 'real' and imaginary worlds ..." (22). The history that emerges from contemporary metafiction is provisional: "no longer a world of eternal verities...a series of constructions, artifices, impermanent structures"(7). Because I have tried to limit myself more or less to Shakespeare's England, much of... | |
 | Lesley Feracho - 2005 - 254 pagini
...and fiction (Waugh 4). As such, the very concept of history is challenged, as metafiction serves as "both a response and a contribution to an even more...constructions, artifices, impermanent structures" (Waugh 7). Hutcheon agrees that such concepts are undone by metafiction, and by postmodern fiction... | |
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Contemporary metafictional writing is both a response and a contribution to an even more thoroughgoing sense that reality or history are provisional: no longer a world of eternal verities but a series of constructions, artifices, impermanent structures. 