self

habitual construction of imagination

Lost in the Funhouse Outline

iambarr | November 21, 2009

Outline
I. Introduction
A. Define terms – metafiction (fiction about fiction), postmodernism (a reworking or subversion of past conventions)
B. Present major arguments
C. State thesis – In writing a story about the writing of a story, Barth has created a classic work of metafiction.
II. Definition and defiance of convention – Barth defines many of the conventions of storytelling [...]