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Theory of Reflexive Fiction

I keep on uploading my both old and new papers to the SSRN. This one was written c. 30 years ago, under duress—I had to get some tenure at the time. My life is a life-long examination…

 

Theory of Reflexive Fiction

Jose Angel Garcia Landa

Universidad de Zaragoza

1992

Abstract:

This paper examines the development of reflexive theories of fiction, and of self-conscious fictional writing, under the Modernist and early Post-modernist aesthetic in the early and mid 20th century, as many sophisticated novelists and theorists turned away from the realist-mimetic aesthetic towards more formal concerns. The development of metafiction and reflexive narrative is associated to the higher formal consciousness associated to formalist approaches to art and literature, the New Criticism and Structuralism, so that self-conscious art might almost be termed “the structuralist aesthetic”.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 20
Keywords:
Literature, Fiction, Metafiction, Writing, Novel, Self-consciousness,
Reflexivity, Formalism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Postmodernism,
Modernism, Aesthetics

working papers series

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_____. “‘Theory of Reflexive Fiction.” Paper presented at the
University of Zaragoza, February 1992. Online edition (2004):

         http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/reflexive.html 

         2012 – DISCONTINUED
2020 – Online at the Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170206185219/http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/reflexive.html

         2020

         https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/reflexive.html

         2020

_____. “Theory of Reflexive Fiction.”
Social Science Research Network 25
June 2012.*

         http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2090254

         2012

         Literary
Theory & Criticism eJournal 25 June 2012.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html

         2012

 

_____. “Theory of Reflexive Fiction.” Academia.edu 26 June 2012.*

         https://www.academia.edu/1256939/

         2015

_____. “Theory of Reflexive Fiction.” ResearchGate 14 Sept. 2013.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256022255

         2013

_____. “Theory of Reflexive Fiction.” In
García Landa, Vanity Fea 24 June
2012.*

         http://vanityfea.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/theory-of-reflexive-fiction.html

         2012