Metafiction the theory and practice of self-conscious fiction

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Defining Metafiction
	Chapter 1: Metafiction
	Chapter 2: What is metafiction and why are they saying such awful things about it?
	Chapter 3: Metanarrative signs
Part Two: Historiographic Metafiction
	Chapter 4: Historiographic metafiction
	Chapter 5: British historiographic metafiction
	Chapter 6: The question of narrative in contemporary historical theory
Part Three: The Writer/Critic
	Chapter 7: The novel now
	Chapter 8: The literature of exhaustion
	Chapter 9: From Reflections on the Name of the Rose
Part Four: Readings of Metafiction
	Chapter 10: The art of metafiction
	Chapter 11: Metafiction, the historical novel and Coover's The Public Burning
	Chapter 12: The novel, illusion and reality: the paradox of omniscience in The French Lieutenant's Woman
	Chapter 13: A novel which is a machine for generating interpretations
Bibliography
Index