Browsing by Subject "Metafiction"
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"I am not I": Late Modernism and Metafiction in Canadian Fiction
(2012-08-24)This dissertation argues that a number of works of Canadian fiction usually designated as modernist fit more properly into the category of “late modernism”: a category that has only recently begun to emerge as a bridge ... -
"Nothing Sacred, Nothing Gained: Deprogramming and Community in Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions"
(2017)This article analyzes the combination of narrative techniques that make up Breakfast of Champions' unique style and substance. Taking its cue from the novel's prologue, the article examines Vonnegut's use of defamiliarized ... -
"Walk-On Parts": The Diminished Agency of Grant Morrison's Superhero Celebrities
(2019-12-16)While several comic book writers have written superheroes as analogous to celebrities, Grant Morrison is the author who has done so the most frequently. Using Zenith, Animal Man and The Multiversity as its core examples, ...