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LINDA HUTCHEON
Narcissistic Narrative
The Metafictional Paradox
"One has to learn what stories are, as a child, in order to enjoy
them. Similarly one has to learn to read-actively,
imaginatively-in order to enjoy the demanding fiction of
today," says the author.
Contemporary self-reflexive novels demand that the reader
participate in the fictional process as imaginative co-creator.
At the same time, they distance the reader by their textual self-
consciousness. Like Narcissus in the Greek myth, the novel of
today is intensely aware of its own existence, continuously
drawing attention to its own storytelling processes and
linguistic structures. The author analyzes four different modes
of "narcissistic" fiction, revealing an extensive awareness of
the arts in North America and Europe, quoting intensively
from English, French, and Italian sources. Her clear, incisive
discussion of literary forms and contemporary criticism, and
the conclusions she draws about the link between art and life,
will interest creators and students of literature and the other
arts.
Linda Hutcheon is Assistant Professor of English at McMaster
University, Hamilton, Ontario, and Adjunct Professor at the
Graduate Centre for Comparative Literature, University of
Toronto. She received the Ph.D. degree in Comparative
Literature from the University of Toronto. Her articles and essays
on both literary theory and individual writers have appeared
internationally in journals, and in various books and essay
collections.
Bibliotheque de la
Revue Canadienne de Litterature Comparee,
vol. 5
Library of the
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature,
vol. 5
DIRECTEUR/EDITOR: M. V. Dimic, Alberta
SECRETAIRE DE REDACTION/EDITORIAL SECRETARY: E.
D. Blodgett, Alberta
COMITE DE PATRONAGE/
ADVISORY BOARD
COMITE DE REDACTION/
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
J. E. Bencheikh, Paris/Alger
R. K. DasGupta, Delhi
J. Ferrate, Alberta
N. Frye, Toronto
H. G. Gadamer, Heidelberg
C. Guillen, San Diego
G. Hartman, Yale
T. Klaniczay, Budapest
A. Viatte, Zurich/Paris
P. Zumthor, Montreal
R. Bourneuf, Laval
P. Chavy, Dalhousie
L. Dolezel, Toronto
M. Goetz-Stankiewicz, British
Columbia
V. Graham, Toronto
E. J. H. Greene, Alberta
C. Hamlin, Toronto
E. Heier, Waterloo
E. Kushner, McGill
P. Merivale, British Columbia
I. Schuster, McGill
R. Sutherland, Sherbrooke
M. J. Valdes, Toronto
E. Vance, Montreal
1
E. J. H. Greene.
Menander to Marivaux: The History of a Comic Structure.
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1977. Pp. 201; $10.00
2,3
M. V. Dimic and E. Kushner, with J. Ferrate and R. Struc, eds.
Proceedings
of the Vllth Congress of the ICLA/Actes du VII
e
Congres del'AILC
[Montreal-Ottawa
1973]. Budapest: Akademai Kiado; Stuttgart: Kunst and Wissen, 1979. Pp. 562
and 728; DM 213.00 (prepublication subscription price $50.00)
4
Mario J. Valdes and Owen J. Miller, eds.
Interpretation of Narrative.
Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1978; $15.00
5
Linda Hutcheon.
Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox.
Waterloo,
Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980; $9.25
6
Nina Kolesnikoff.
Bruno Jasienski: His evolution from Futurism to Socialist
Realism.
Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980
THE METAFICTIONAL PARADOX
NARCISSISTIC NARRATIVE
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