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Article: Feminist metafiction and androcentric reading strategies: Angela Carter's reconstructed reader in 'Nights at the Circus.'
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- CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
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In his review of Robert Coover's Gerald's Party, Robert Christgau claims that writers of metafiction such as John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, John Hawkes, and Coover are "a significant subculture with a unique perspective on the world today. If we can speak of black fiction and women's fiction, surely we can speak of fiction by pretentious white American men" (7). As this comment indicates, metafiction - fiction that self-consciously reflects upon its fictional status and comments upon its own use of narrative conventions - is most often identified with male postmodernists, even though metafiction's potential to subvert the conventions of literary discourse would seem to make it ...
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Article: Doris Lessing Wins Nobel for Literature
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... ... Sweden - Doris Lessing, author of dozens ... the classic "The Golden Notebook," won the Nobel ... celebrated for "The Golden Notebook" and other works ... eccentric. Even Lessing apparently was ... known for "The Golden Notebook," published in ... classic although Lessing ...
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