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TOUBI, Manal |
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2019-02-28T08:32:44Z |
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2019-02-28T08:32:44Z |
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2017-06 |
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http://dspace.univ-guelma.dz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2691 |
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Self-reflexive narrative is the new literary trend which dominated the American postmodern
fiction during 1960s and 1970s. John Barth is one of the greatest postmodern American
fiction writers. His collection of short stories Lost in the Funhouse (1968) is characterized
with an intensive use of self-reflexive narrative in which the subject of almost all the stories
of the collection is how fiction is created and the thought processes that the author goes
through while creating the fictional work. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate
self-reflexive narrative in selected stories from Barth’s collection Lost in the Funhouse. The
reason for selecting Barth’s work is the experimental tendency that dominated most of his
postmodern writings, as well as his remarkable efforts to refresh what he calls the exhausted
literature. Patricia Waugh and Linda Hutcheon‘s theories concerning self-reflexive narrative
in American postmodern fiction will be used throughout the discussion. The study is divided
into three chapters. The first chapter includes an overview about the postmodern American
literature and explores the main characteristics of self-reflexive narrative. The second chapter
examines the technique of narrative self-criticism in selected stories from the collection, and
the third chapter analyses the reader-involvement technique in some selected stories from the
collection. |
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dc.subject |
Self-Reflexive Narrative-American-Postmodern Fiction-John Barth-Funhouse. |
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Self-Reflexive Narrative in American Postmodern Fiction |
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Case Study: John Barth Lost in the Funhouse |
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Working Paper |
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