| Description |
222 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
[1.] Fabulation and reality: Fact, fiction, and fallibilism -- Reality of Borges -- [2.] Nature of romance: What good is pure romance? -- Orgastic pattern of fiction -- Lawrence Durrell and the return to Alexandria -- John Fowles as romancer -- [3.] Modern allegory: A fable and its gloss -- Iris Murdoch's Unicorn -- John Barth's Goat-boy -- [4.] Metafiction: Nature of experimental fiction -- Range of metafiction: Barth, Barthelme, Coover, Gass -- Limits of metafiction: Warhol, Mosley, Sarraute, Brodeur, Merwin, Charyn, Dylan, Federman -- [5.] Comedy and grotesquerie: Comedy of extremity -- Making of a comedian -- Vonnegut's Cat's cradle and Mother night -- Black humor in Hawkes and Southern -- John Hawkes's theory of fiction -- Lime twig -- A portrait of the artist as "escape goat": Malamud's Fidelman -- Ishmael's black art -- Epilogue: History as fabulation: Malamud and Vonnegut -- Fabulation as history: Barth, García-Marquez, Fowles, Pynchon, Coover -- Imagination dead imagine: reflections on self-reflexive. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Experimental fiction -- History and criticism.
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Experimental fiction. |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Fiction -- Technique.
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Fiction -- Technique. |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Scholes, Robert E. Fabulation and metafiction. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1979 (OCoLC)644592233 |
| ISBN |
0252007042 |
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9780252007040 |
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0252007611 |
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9780252007613 |
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