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Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Publication date May 22, 2013
Pages 168
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781554585021
ISBN-10 1554585023
Dimensions 0.50 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight 0.60 lbs.
Published in Canada
Original list price $32.99
Other format details university press
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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 self-reflexive text and distanced from it because of its very self-reflexiveness. She illustrates her analysis through the works of novelists such as Fowles, Barth, Nabokov, Calvino, Borges, Carpentier, and Aquin. For the paperback edition of this important book a preface has been added which examines developments since first publication. Narcissistic Narrative was selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books for 1981–1982.



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from Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr (May 22, 2013)
9781554585021 | details & prices | 168 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $32.99
About: 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.
With Ulrike Gerhard (other contributor), Tim Freytag (other contributor), Hans Gebhardt (other contributor), Doris Wastl-Walter (other contributor) | from Routledge (July 1, 1984)
9780415065672 | details & prices | List price $16.95
This edition also contains Humangeographie Kompakt
About: 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.
With Jase Robertson, Mark Schlabach | from Routledge List price $16.95
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About: 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.

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