Interpreting great classics of literature as metatheatre and metafiction : Ovid, Beowulf, Corneille, Racine, Wieland, Stoppard, and Rushdie / edited by David Gallagher ; with a foreword by John T. Hamilton.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164).
Summary
This volume examines a variety of comparative literary texts from different periods, literary traditions and cultures that are drawn on to examine metatheatricality and metafictionality. Metatheatre and metafiction are considered for their interrelation, impact and correspondence with seventeenth century French drama, the eighteenth century German novel, twentieth century English drama, an old English epic text, Indian postmodernist fiction, as well as Greek and Roman Classical works of antiquity.
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