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
