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habitual construction of imagination

Evolution of a paper. Mostly complete.

iambarr | November 23, 2009

Fear and Confusion The defining characteristic of metafiction is that the text must self-consciously acknowledge the conventions involved in the fiction-writing process. In Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth not only calls attention to general literary conventions, he blatantly exposes them within his own story, often defining them immediately before defying them. Two of the [...]