Notes on Metafiction

Abstract

This paper consists in lecture notes and materials for a postgraduate course on metafiction at the University of Zaragoza (1991). Contents include:

1. Introduction; 2. Reflexivity and Metafiction: Some Related Concepts; 3. The Reflexive Novel; 4. Reflexive Devices in Fiction; 5. Theory of Reflexive Fiction; 6. Metafiction as Thought; 7. Postmodernism and Reflexivity, appendixes and a bibliography of criticism on metafiction up to 1990.

Keywords: Metafiction, Literature, Experimental fiction, Narratology, Literary theory, Literary criticism, Postmodernist literature