...metafiction makes skill conscious. It is fiction that is conscious of its own proceedings. Waugh states that metafiction "is a term given to fictional writing...systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality" (1984: 2)....

...Patricia Waugh, author of Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction, who states: "Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing...questions about the relationship between fiction and reality."4 Metafiction, considered a form of postmodernism, tends toward the "exaggeration of the tensions...

...self-consciousness in modem literature, or in language in general. According to her initial definition, metafiction "is a term given to fictional writing...questions about the relationship between fiction and reality." Waugh further states that "over the last twenty years, novelists have tended to become much...

...In doing so I view the novels as examples of what Patricia Waugh has called "metafiction," that is, "fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically...questions about the relationship between fiction and reality." 32 By concentrating on the interaction between literary form and institutional context in...

...engen Metakommunikationsbegriff der linguistischen Pragmatik. Eine verwandte Definition finden wir bei Waugh. "METAFICTION" is a term given to fictional...selfconsciously and systematically draws attention to its Status äs an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. (...)...

...approximates this formulation in her general study of the topic, in which she defines metafiction as "fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality."20 To affirm...

...them, and its also manifests a fundamental distinction between metafiction and metapoesis. She writes: "Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing...questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. In providing a critique of their own methods of construction, such writings not only examine...

...further qualification such as that provided by Patricia Waugh: "Metafiction is a term given to fiction writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality."*' The last...

...veils of illusion are gone, unhappy that the new clothes may also be illusory. Patricia Waugh says that "metafiction is a term given to fictional writing...systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality."" In contrast...

...Theory and Practica of Self -Conscious Fiction, London/New York, Methuen, 1984, p. 2: "Metafíctíon is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously...and systematically draws attention to its status as en artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between Fiction and reality". Tal definición...