Overview

This volume examines literary texts from different periods, literary traditions and cultures as metatheatre and metafiction. The works are analyzed for their impact on, and relation to, the 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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Author:   David Gallagher
Publisher:   The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
Imprint:   Edwin Mellen Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780773414389

ISBN 10:   077341438
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   April 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor John T. Hamilton; Acknowledgements; Introduction by David Gallagher and Mary Ann Frese Witt; Chapter 1:; Metatheatre on Metatheatre: Kushner on Corneille; Mary Ann Frese Witt (North Carolina State University); Chapter 2:; Metatheatre and Philosophy: Tom Stoppard and the Juggling of Ideas; Martin Puchner (Columbia University); Chapter 3:; Jean Racine's and Matthew Maguire's Phaedras; Athena Coronis (University of Patras); Chapter 4:; Metaliterary Metaphor in Ovid's Metamorphoses; Anita Nikkanen (Harvard University); Chapter 5: Manifesting Beowulf's Meta-Monsters; Ali M. Meghdadi (University of California, Irvine); Chapter 6:; Rushdie's Metafictional Extravaganza: Storytelling in The Enchantress of Florence and Midnight's Children; Aparna Zambare (Central Michigan University); Chapter 7:; Metafiction in Wieland's Geschichte des Agathon; David Gallagher (Royal Holloway, University of London); Notes; Bibliography.

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...these essays demonstrate that the terms 'metafiction' and 'metatheatre' are actually conceptual bridges, routes of passage between times and cultures, and therefore categories that destabilize conventional ways of marking period and space....these two analytic categories can renew our understanding of classic texts. (Prof. Matthew Wilson Smith Boston University)

"""...these essays demonstrate that the terms 'metafiction' and 'metatheatre' are actually conceptual bridges, routes of passage between times and cultures, and therefore categories that destabilize conventional ways of marking period and space....these two analytic categories can renew our understanding of classic texts."" (Prof. Matthew Wilson Smith Boston University)"""

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