Routledge Companion to Metafiction

Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis is Associate Professor in the Humanities, and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on postmodern metafiction in both children’s and mainstream fiction, and, whenever possible, she weaves into her research contemporary Greek literature. Her articles have appeared in various edited volumes as well as peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature Quarterly, Bookbird, International Research in Children’s Literature, and Narrative. Josh Toth is Professor of English at MacEwan University, Canada. He is the author of The Passing of Postmodernism: A Spectroanalysis of the Contemporary (SUNY, 2010), Stranger America: A Narrative Ethics of Exclusion (Virginia, 2018), and Truth and Metafiction: Plasticity and Renewal in American Narrative (Bloomsbury, 2021).

• 1. Introductioni. Metafiction and Its Vicissitudesii. Structure of the Companion and Summary of ChaptersLissi Athanasiou-KrikelisI: Form & Genre2. Reconstructive Metafiction: Posthumanism and the Paradoxical Spaces of Self-ReferenceWolfgang Funk3. “Of Writing Many Books There Is no End”: Aurora Leigh as MetafictionIrmtraud Huber4. Meta Games: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Metafiction through VideogamesTheresa Krampe5. Metafiction and Poetic FormMatthew Martello6. Sky-writing, or, Meta-Science-FictionBrian McHale 7. Audience Involvement and the Implicated Subject in Contemporary British TheaterEszter VassII: Media & Theory8. Multimodal Metafiction: Comics, Concrete Poetry, and Communicative ModesRoy T. Cook9. Where Has All the “Meta” Gone? Planetary Ontology and the Object of Metafiction after PostmodernismChristian Moraru10. Hostile Takeover: Of Reflexive Platforms, Fictive Levels, and Emergent Allegories of the Small ScreenDavid LaRocca11. Transmit by Intermit: Between Metatextual and MetamedialGarrett Stewart12. Metareference–Metafiction–Metalepsis: Lost in ‘Metaland’?Werner WolfIII: Periods & Regions13. Imagining a World “Just a Little Different”: The “As If” Realism of Twenty-first Century MetafictionYannicke Chupin14. The Lyric and Metafiction: From Lord Byron’s Romanticism to Ben Lerner’s Negative RomanticismGeorge Fragopoulos15. Aspirational Metafiction: Narrative Self-Anticipation in the Early Twentieth CenturyKurt Koenigsberger16. Metafiction in the Victorian Novel: Situating “A Reflective Turn of Mind”Tabitha Sparks17. American Eccentric Cinema and Metafictive PasticheKim WilkinsIV: Politics & Identity18. (Post)feminism and Metafiction in God’s WifeLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis19. Metaffective Fiction: Or What We Feel When We Feel about MetafictionRalph Clare20. “Anything She’s Writing is Just Unknowledge”: Kathy Acker’s Queer MetafictionAmanda Dubrule21. Diaz’s Destabilizing DisTrust: A Metafictional Model of Contemporary LifeVirginia Newhall Rademacher22. Metafiction and the HolocaustDavid Rudrum23. Megaton Metafictions of U.S. Government: Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, and Politics and Bureaucracy in the Self-Conscious NovelJeffrey SeversV: Tradition & Culture24. Storied Storytelling: Orality as Self-Reflexivity in Indigenous LiteraturesMelanie Braith25. Making Meaning with Metafiction: An “Engaging Ally” for Learning Critically Literate Ways with Words?Jennifer Farrar26. Children’s Metafiction and Narrative StewardshipArt Happening27. Narrative Strategy, Genre Convention, and Perspective Shifts: Metafictional Impulses in Octavia Butler's Lilith's BroodAparajita Nanda28. The Metafictional Nature of Picturebook Peritextual ElementsSylvia Pantaleo29. “Have I heard this story before?” Metafiction and Fairy Tales in Robert Coover’s Briar RoseChristy WilliamsVI: Subjectivity & Authorship30. Corporate Creators: Metacomics, Industrial Reflexivity, and the Origins of VertigoLee Konstantinou31. Julie Doucet’s Metafictive Graphic Memoir Time Zone JShiamin Kwa32. Inside the House: Metafiction Takes on the Publishing IndustryLeah Milne33. Ben Lerner’s Autofictions:, or,: Program Era Writing in the Wake of PostcritiqueIoannis Tsitsovits34. Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental: The Strategic Irony of AutofictionMarjorie Worthington