Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative

by Josh Toth

Book Overview

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism-with a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outright nihilism. Yet, if (as is now widely assumed) postmodernism has finally run its course, how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media? Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism has passed, or has the function of metafiction somehow...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501351737
• ISBN13: 9781501351730
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"