Theory of Reflexive Fiction
24/6/12
I keep on uploading my both old and new papers to the SSRN. This one was written 20 years ago, under duress—I had to get some tenure at the time. My life is a life-long examination...
Theory of Reflexive Fiction
Jose Angel Garcia Landa
Universidad de Zaragoza
1992
Abstract:
This paper examines the development of reflexive theories of fiction, and of self-conscious fictional writing, under the Modernist and early Post-modernist aesthetic in the early and mid 20th century, as many sophisticated novelists and theorists turned away from the realist-mimetic aesthetic towards more formal concerns. The development of metafiction and reflexive narrative is associated to the higher formal consciousness associated to formalist approaches to art and literature, the New Criticism and Structuralism, so that self-conscious art might almost be termed "the structuralist aesthetic".
Number of Pages in PDF File: 20
Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Metafiction, Writing, Novel, Self-consciousness, Reflexivity, Formalism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Postmodernism, Modernism, Aesthetics
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