{"product_id":"narcissistic-narrative-the-metafictional-paradox-paperback-softback-9781554585021","title":"Narcissistic Narrative; The Metafictional Paradox (Paperback \/ softback) 9781554585021","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNarcissistic Narrative\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Metafictional Paradox\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLinda Hutcheon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781554585021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 May 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.26 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving 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. \u003ci\u003eNarcissistic Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e was selected by \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the outstanding academic books for 1981-1982.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNarcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox\u003c\/i\u003e, by Linda Hutcheon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Modes and Forms of Narrative Narcissism: Introduction of a Typology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Process and Product: The Implications of Metafiction for the Theory of the Novel as a Mimetic Genre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Thematizing Narrative Artifice: Parody, Allegory, and the \u003ci\u003eMise En Abyme\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 Freedom Through Artifice: \u003ci\u003eThe French Lieutenant's Woman\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Actualizing Narrative Structures: Detective Plot, Fantasy, Games, and the Erotic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 The Language of Fiction: Creating the Heterocosm of Fictive Referents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 The Theme of Linguistic identity: \u003ci\u003eLa Maccina Modiale\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Generative Word Play: The Outer Limits of the Novel Genre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 Composite Identity: The Reader, the Writer, the Critic\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConclusion and Speculations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex of Subjects and Names\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523156373784,"sku":"9781554585021","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/narcissistic-narrative-the-metafictional-paradox-paperback-softback-9781554585021","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}