Format: Paperback
Pages: 168
ISBN: 9780813154695
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Illustrations: Illus
Description:
The term metafiction invaded the vocabulary of literary criticism around 1970, yet the textual strategies involved in turning fiction back onto itself can be traced through several centuries. In this theoretical/critical study Robert C. Spires examines the nature of metafiction and chronicles its evolution in Spain from the time of Cervantes to the 1970s, when the obsession with novelistic self-commentary culminated in an important literary movement.