This paper explores metafiction’s role in fictional science picturebooks and its resolution of the contradictions between fictional stories and scientific knowledge in existing research by analysing two children’s p...
Atonement is one of Ian McEw an’s most popular novels, and one mark ed feature is that it has a metafictional coda which turns the novel into metafiction and overturns the ending of its two protagonists, Robbie and C...
The language of The Blind Assassin bears a strong taste of game. Narrative language interweaves critical remarks. Escaping from the context and breaking the continuity of narration, the narrator directly comments on t...
In Michel Houellebecq's novel The Map and the Territory (2010), the references to visual art, painting, and photography take a central place in the narrative. In addition to the verbal representation of artworks, t...
The essay tries to explore the metafiction elements in Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours.The work,The Hours,is in fact a fiction about how the fiction becomes a fiction and also a fiction about the previous fictio...
Beloved is a masterpiece which helps African American writer Toni Morrison to win the Nobel Prize. In the novel,Morrison uses the postmodernist mefafictional devices to strongly indict the cruelty and inhumanity of sl...
Throughout Jazz (2004), Morrison revises language and stakes a generic revolution within her linguistic one. Problematising language, she interrogates its role by disrupting all metaphoric operation and normative op...
Published in the early 1960s, The Golden Notebook emerges with distinct metafictional features. Its unique structure and rich content enable Doris Lessing to display her proficient metafictional writing skill which ef...
As the dominant cultural development of the second half of the 20^th century, postmodemism penetrates into almost all the fields of contemporary cultures and indicates a kind of special thinking mode which is totally ...