L’artifice fait rire, a moins qu’il ne fasse pleurer by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…It envisages a number of constraints as constitutive of the artifice of comic texts : traducson (D'Antin), psychotyping (Jennings), the productions of fous littéraires, lipogram (Perec), metafiction (Abish). The essay concludes on Barthes's account of the "machinery of meaning" and his concept of neutre.…”
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O que é literatura? Provocações metalinguísticasem narrativas de Luci Collin by Lúcia Osana Zolin

“…The current paper discusses the metafiction inthe short stories of Luci Collin. …”
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A Violent Need for Distance by Laurent Mellet

“…Whether the distance be in focalisation or metafiction, the rift violently makes empathy irrelevant and establishes a new narrative rhythm that reshuffles fiction and posits narration no longer as the means but as the end of writing.…”
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Multilingualism and Polyphony: Post-modernism Features in "Possible Night" (Shab-e Momken) Novel by Nooshin Ostadmohamadi, Maryam Hoseini

“…Authors will prove this is a postmodern novel with components such as “metafiction”, “uncertainity”, “multiple ending”, “short circuit”, and “intertextuality”. …”
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Narrative Strategies and Intermedial Devices in Gabriel Josipovici’s In the fertile Land by Mário Semião

“…In proposing this double emphasis, the notions of metafiction and intermediality are initially discussed in the context of a close reading of one of the stories in the collection, “Brothers” (1983). …”
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Joseph Conrad’s ‘Youth’: A Melting Pot for the Old and New by Samir Elbarbary

“…The modern/postmodern is at work in a dialogic disposition (in the Bakhtinian sense) along with the shifting discourse that characterizes Conrad’s oeuvre, a metafictional quality, intertextual space, and there is the sense of loss and pointlessness of striving that is fairly common in such writing. …”
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Captation spéculaire et mise en abyme dans le film Jane Eyre de Franco Zeffirelli by Isabelle Van Peteghem-Tréard

“…The director thus emphasizes the question of representation and its various metafictional modes as Jane Eyre—the movie— can be seen as a portrait of the artist. …”
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Money Talks: Language, Work and Authorship from The Music of Chance to Sunset Park by Aliki Varvogli

“…The preoccupation with the language of money allows Auster’s fiction to be both about representation and about the things it seeks to represent, to be realist and metafictional, and to explore material and immaterial questions at the same time.…”
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De Dolores, CO à Lolita, TX : Détours et retours à travers "the crazy quilt of forty-eight states" by Marie Bouchet

“…The country and its metonymic nymphet share characterization devices: conjunction of “reality effects” and metafictional elements, structures based on repetitions and doubles, hybrid combinations. …”
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The Last and Latest Dickens by Clotilde De Stasio

“…While the Italian writers’ approach was metafictional and parodic, à la Lodge, Pearl’s approach is thematic and biographical, and highly sensational. …”
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Jane Eyre de Michael Berkeley et de David Malouf : La transposition opératique d’un grand classique de la littérature anglaise by Jean-Philippe Heberlé

“…On the other hand, the analysis of the discrepancies between the novel and the opera as they appear in both the libretto and the music will lead us to a modern apprehension of the characterization of madness as well as of the metafictional dimension of the rewriting of Jane Eyre by David Malouf and Michael Berkeley.  …”
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