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From: The Search for Identity in the Narrative of Rosa Montero[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Knights describes traditional depictions of motherhood and the social position of mothers in Spain. In contrast to these, she positions Montero’s “quasi-documentary”...
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date winter 1978) In the following essay, Wood contends that Lowry's short story "Ghostkeeper" reveals insights into his creative process and acts as a model for his later work.] The 1973 publication of...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1993) In the following essay, Stephens classifies three of Mayne's young adult novels--Salt River Times,Winter Quarters, and Drift--as examples of metafiction.] William Mayne has long been considered one...
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From: Narrative[(essay date January 1997) In the following essay, Lawrence examines the parallels between Textermination and the dramatic performance Masterpiece Theatre: An Academic Melodrama, written by Sandra Gilbert and Susan...
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From: Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literature[(essay date summer 1988) In the following essay, Kerr analyzes the metafictional elements of Casa de campo.] In José Donoso's Casa de Campo the conventions of reading mimetic fiction confront the conventions of...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionOne of the targets in Barthelme's second collection of short stories, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, is society's blind gropings for truth. Barthelme probes the problems, if not the impossibility, of discovering...
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From: The Emergence of the Modern German Novel: Christoph Martin Wieland, Sophie von La Roche, and Maria Anna Sagar[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Baldwin considers The Adventures of Don Sylvio de Rosalva in relation to narrative theory. She focuses particularly on the thematic implications of the novel’s emphasis on...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)"Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends," Philip Roth has remarked in interview; "I am also on friendly terms with Deadly Playfulness, Serious Playfulness, Serious Seriousness, and Sheer...
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From:Atlantis, revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedZits, el protagonista de Flight (2007), de Sherman Alexie, es un adolescente nativo americano que tiene serias dificultades para definir su identidad y encontrar un espacio en la sociedad norteamericana contemporanea....
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From: Essays in Literature[(essay date spring 1984) In the following essay, Craig discusses the effectiveness of using reader-response theory in the study of nineteenth-century realistic fiction.] Wolfgang Iser's study of the reader in the...
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From: Criticism in the Twilight Zone: Postmodern Perspectives on Literature and Politics[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Karlsson discusses the features of "minimalism" as represented in the short stories of several writers, including Robison.] In 1983 the British literary magazine Granta...
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From:Letras Femeninas (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLa felicidad es un diccionario de palabras. O una biblioteca interna e insensata. Nuria Amat ("Casa de verano" 40) Montero and Genre Bending The Spanish journalist and novelist Rosa Montero pushes the limits in...
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From: Hispania[(essay date 2016) In the following essay, Fellie examines the role of “communication, silence, and metafictional breaks” in Talk to Her, encouraging readers to consider the moral and social conflicts in the film.] The...
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From: Novel: A Forum on Fiction[(essay date winter-spring 1988) In the following essay, Caserio compares Xorandor with J. G. Ballard's Crash in terms of their relation to the science fiction genre, narratology, and postmodernism.] 1. On the Road...
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From: Nineteenth Century French Studies[In the following excerpt, Crecelius discusses Mérimée's novella Colomba as a hybrid text that combines elements of the vendetta tale with those of the detective story and offers a metafictional interpretation of the...
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From: Beyond the Metafictional Mode: Directions in the Modern Spanish Novel[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Spires charts the development of the Spanish metafictional novel in the 1960s.] The so-called "art for art's sake" movement of the 1920s and 1930s came to an abrupt end with...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The much-quoted glowing tribute paid to Julian Barnes by Carlos Fuentes has given him the reputation—by no means entirely undeserved—of being the most literary, the most intellectual and above all the most international...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedJohn Fowles (1926-2005), an outstanding English writer of 1960s, published "The French Lieutenant's Woman" in 1969. "Freedom" is the motif of John Fowles's fiction writing, one of his strategies, the important...
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From: Studies in the Novel[(essay date summer 1988) In the following essay, Fishburn identifies and discusses the work of Doris Lessing as a metafictional writer.] --A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete.--Jorge...
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From: Mississippi Quarterly[(essay date Fall 1986) In the following essay, Pollack analyzes Welty's relationship with her readers.] Eudora Welty often speaks of her storytelling in terms that suggest it is a strategy for dealing with...