I'm screwed.

[love_isa_risk]

"In other words, postmodernist fiction and criticism both aim to articulate the unconscious, and in particular the unconscious self-referentiality of non-metafictional metafiction. If unconscious self-consciousness is the common critical object of metafiction and criticism, it does not stabilize the identity of either, since both metafiction and

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[laurapatt]

literary criticism FAIL

[adiaaida]

first, what is non-metafictional metafiction?
second, what the hell is unconscious self-consciousness?

third... what is metafiction, just generally?

[love_isa_risk]

For the purposes of my exam, According to Mark Curie, Metafiction is any work of fiction that explores the border between fiction and literary criticism (authors fictionalize criticism in their novels and critics acknowledge the narrative aspects of their theories). It is conscious of the fact that it is fiction and explicitly draws attention to this fact. But, Currie also states that self-cosncious metafiction is not truly self-conscious unless it acknowledges the fact that it is metafiction and not just fiction. Currie's definition also allows for marginal cases of metafiction which either rely on implicit rather than explicit attention to the creation of fiction (such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness in which Marlowe not only acts as a surrogate author, telling his story to the surrogate audience (his fellow sailors), but also as a member of the audience himself by analyzing the events of his story) or rely on intertextuality for their self-consciousness (through the use of parody or pastiche-- taking or combining elements from

[adiaaida]

ok, i have no idea what that means, but i'm glad you do.