Metafiction - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Here are some notes I made about the metafictional status of Atonement and the significance of this.

UIL Literary Criticism UIL Exam Final Questions and Answers 2024 Adventure Stories - CORRECT ANSWER-a story based around action, not character development, motive, or theme development. Alternative History - CORRECT ANSWER-a story based loosely off of a major historical event, often changing the outcome or facts of the event. Archetype - CORRECT ANSWER-An image, character, or event recurrent in literature that suggests a mythological pattern of experience or universal meaning. Charac...

'Postmodernism Question and answers 2023/2024 verified to pass pastiche - correct answer Postmodern authors were certainly not the first to use irony and humor in their writing, but for many postmodern authors, these became the hallmarks of their style. Postmodern authors will often treat very serious subjects—World War II, the Cold War, conspiracy theories—from a position of distance and disconnect, and will choose to depict their histories ironically and humorously. Intertextuality ...

POSTMODERNISM, definition, general features Question and answers rated A+ 2023/2024Postmodernism: the term - correct answer - like 'modernism' or 'realism', 'postmodernism' can be used a) as a period term, and b) as a term designating a certain trend in literature and other media a) period from the 1960s to around 2000, or, as some say, to the present (i.e. not quite immediately following modernism, since the 1940s and l 950s showed a 'reaction against modernist experimentation' in poet...

Postmodernism in LiteratureIrony, black humor, playfulness - correct answer Treat serious subjects in a playful and humorous way, often as commentary (ex: insensitivity about man squashed in elevator, page 9) Techno culture and Hyperreality - correct answer Simulations have replaced the real; often dealt with using characteristic irony and pastiche (ex: The Gutless Wonder) Metafiction - correct answer Writing about writing; making the artificiality of art or the fictionality of fiction app...

Postmodernism Question and answers 2023/2024 verified to pass Postmodernism - correct answer aesthetic, cultural *metafiction* (narrative within narrative) *self-reflexivity* *blurring of boundaries* (no high & low culture) *sheer play and existential commitment* *pastiche* (Comic Mona Lisa) (pieces of art alluding to what came before, revisit old style vs. Modernism, reinvent everything) *linguistic scepticism/deconstruction* (poststructuralism: meaning collapsed, my pen is not your pe...

POSTMODERNISM, definition, general featuresPostmodernism: the term - correct answer - like 'modernism' or 'realism', 'postmodernism' can be used a) as a period term, and b) as a term designating a certain trend in literature and other media a) period from the 1960s to around 2000, or, as some say, to the present (i.e. not quite immediately following modernism, since the 1940s and l 950s showed a 'reaction against modernist experimentation' in poetry and fiction; cf. Rabinovitz 1967); th...

Postmodernism Postmodernism - correct answer aesthetic, cultural *metafiction* (narrative within narrative) *self-reflexivity* *blurring of boundaries* (no high & low culture) *sheer play and existential commitment* *pastiche* (Comic Mona Lisa) (pieces of art alluding to what came before, revisit old style vs. Modernism, reinvent everything) *linguistic scepticism/deconstruction* (poststructuralism: meaning collapsed, my pen is not your pen) Meaning = unstable Not just literature, als...

Postmodernism in Literature Question and answers rated A+ 2023/2024Irony, black humor, playfulness - correct answer Treat serious subjects in a playful and humorous way, often as commentary (ex: insensitivity about man squashed in elevator, page 9) Techno culture and Hyperreality - correct answer Simulations have replaced the real; often dealt with using characteristic irony and pastiche (ex: The Gutless Wonder) Metafiction - correct answer Writing about writing; making the artificiality ...

Modernism correct answers aims to break traditional form Postmodernism correct answers departure from modernism Fragmentation correct answers jumbling up the sequence of a story Harlem Renaissance correct answers blossoming of the African American culture Persona correct answers the person that is understood to be speaking Passing correct answers as account of a person claiming a racial or ethnic identity that they dont possess Primitivism correct answers a mode of aesth...