“C’est la vie, c’est la narration”: The Reader in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Textermination and David Lodge’s Small World
This article considers two metafictional academic novels from the reader’s point of view. It argues that this critical vantage point is suggested (if not imposed) by the fictional texts themselves. The theoretical texts informing this reading pertain either to reader response or to theories of metaf...
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| Language: | English |
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2016-06-01
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| Series: | American, British and Canadian Studies Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2016-0004 |