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What saves a book on contemporary self-reflexive fiction from becoming a mirror of the mirror is its ability to maintain a perspective from outside of the work, despite the novel s claims for infinite, entropic regression. The Metafictional Muse certainly fulfills this requirement. The bulk of this book consists of lengthy readings of three American novelists, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William Gass readings that are among the best on these authors yet produced. <i> American Literature</i></p>

What saves a book on contemporary self-reflexive fiction from becoming a mirror of the mirror is its ability to maintain a perspective from outside of the work, despite the novel s claims for infinite, entropic regression. The Metafictional Muse certainly fulfills this requirement. The bulk of this book consists of lengthy readings of three American novelists, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and William Gass readings that are among the best on these authors yet produced. American Literature

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Larry McCaffery is emeritus professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University.

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