Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part One: Defining Metafiction
1. Robert Scholes, Metafiction.
2. Patricia Waugh, What is metafiction and why are they saying such awful things about it?
3. Gerald Prince, Metanarrative signs.

Part Two: Historiographic Metafiction
4. Linda Hutcheon, Historiographic metafiction.
5. Susana Onega, British historiographic metafiction.
6. Hayden White, The question of narrative in contemporary historical theory.

Part Three: The writer/critic
7. David Lodge, The novel now.
8. John Barth, The literature of exhaustion.
9. Umberto Eco, From Reflections on the "Name of the Rose".

Part Four: Readings of Metafiction
10.Larry McCaffery, The art of metafiction.
11.Raymond A Azurek, Metafiction, the historical novel and Coover's "The Public Burning".
12.Frederick M Holmes, The Novel, illusion and reality: the paradox of omniscience in "The French Lieutenant's Women".
13.Elizabeth Dipple, a novel which is a machine for generating interpretations.

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Mark Currie is Professor of Contemporary Literature at Queen Mary University of London.