metafictionists

I have to assume that in Ulin's reference to "playing games" he is taking a swipe at postmodernism, using the same stale cliche those critics who want to valorize the "engagement" of writers like Mailer and Johnson in contrast to the aesthetic affectations of formalists and metafictionists always seem to use.

Saying Something 2010

My own excitement about the work of metafictionists like Barthelme, Barth, Vonnegut, and Pynchon certainly is a key part of that book, but it's also true that their succeeding books, including Nabokov's last books, began disappointing me soon afterwards.

Premises 2010

One can legitimately find the work of John Barth and other metafictionists not to one's liking without distorting the fact of its prominence during the period Dickstein is examining.

The Reading Experience 2010

One can legitimately find the work of John Barth and other metafictionists not to one's liking without distorting the fact of its prominence during the period Dickstein is examining.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

Along with metafictionists such as Barth and Coover, these writers end up foregrounding "story" (either through its conspicuous absence or through the exposure of its conventionality) in such a way that the reader is encouraged to question the extent to which we associate the art of fiction with "narrative."

Narrative Strategies 2009

One can legitimately find the work of John Barth and other metafictionists not to one's liking without distorting the fact of its prominence during the period Dickstein is examining.

Premises 2010

One can legitimately find the work of John Barth and other metafictionists not to one's liking without distorting the fact of its prominence during the period Dickstein is examining.

April 2010 2010

Because The Enchantress of Florence is simultaneously a postmodernist work of prose fiction, highly self-conscious and stylized, variously influenced by metafictionists John Barth (Giles Goat-Boy, Chimera), Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler), and Gabriel Garcìa Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch), among others, the inflation of Rushdie's characters and the story in which they participate is presented in comic-epic terms.

In the Emperor's Dream House Oates, Joyce Carol 2008

In 1993, over the name 'Philip Roth,' there appeared a book entitled Operation Shylock: A Confession, which besides being a dazzling raid into territory that had seemed to be staked out by John Barth and the metafictionists, was also about Israel and its relations with the Jewish Diaspora.

What Philip Knew Coetzee, J.M. 2004

Most nonreaders are as ignorant of the existence of Joyce's experimental novel as they are of L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E P = O = E = T = R = Y, and if they'd rather go to the movies than read serious fiction, it's because they find Hemingway or Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor or Toni Morrison just as difficult, just as "boring" as any of the high modernists or metafictionists.

Poetry 2010