Self-consciousness, self-reflexivity [1] and metafiction are terms often used to describe a particular characteristic common to postmodern fiction. Robert Alter has defined the “self-conscious novel” ...
About a year into my graduate education in English literature, I began to have the vague impression that something wasn't right. Both my peers and most of the faculty, I felt, valued literature at ...
With her latest novel, A.S. Byatt returns to some of the elements that made “Possession” a bestseller and Booker Prize winner in 1990: an attempt to unearth the secrets of a dead writer, a parody of ...
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