From Formalist Text to Ideological Dialogue: the Theory and Practice of Western Postmodern Metafiction
by Li Dan
About This Novel
Metafiction is "a novel about a novel, a novel that focuses on the fictional identity of the novel and its creation process." It is a typical style of postmodern literature. The greatest characteristic of metafiction is "reflexivity", that is, it has a clear self-awareness of its own nature as a fictional artifact and exposes its own fiction. In the opinion of many researchers, metafiction thus cuts off the connection between novels and reality, highlights the self-awareness and text form of novels, and carries the formalist tendency and nihilistic color of postmodern literature. But the problem is that formalist texts may not be irrelevant to real politics. Form embodies reality and participates in real-world struggles. Based on the method of combining classical narratology and post-classical narratology, we conduct ideological analysis on the basis of formal analysis, trying to reveal the reflection of the formal experiment of metafiction, a "formalist text", on social ideology and its active intervention in social politics under the cover of "self-reflection".
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