Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction

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Metafiction, the practice in fictional texts of displaying an awareness of their fictional status, highlighting it, or even exploring it after the manner of literary criticism, existed in ancient Greek and Roman literature. The significance of metafiction to this field is very great--arguably even more so than within modern literature studies, despite the greater prevalence of metafictions in later texts--because it necessarily implies that a text...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0415529247

ISBN13:9780415529242

Release Date:January 2026

Publisher:Routledge

Length:232 Pages

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History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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