William Gass’s metafictional theory and practice

目录
Introduction
Chapter 1 Metafiction and Postmodernism
A Fredric Jameson's Periodizing Hypothesis
B Definitions of Metafiction by European and American Writers and Critics
1 Various Definitions Of Metafiction
2 The Relationship between Metafiction and Postmodernism
3 Metafiction and Its Alternative Terms
C General Issues and Signs of Metafiction
1 The Arbitrariness of Language
2 The Artificiality of Fiction
3 The Paradoxical Status of Author
4 Intertextuality
D William Gass on Metafiction
1 William Gass as a Language Philosopher and a Metafictionist
2 The Characteristics of William Gass's Metafictional Theory and Practice
3 William Gass Compared with Other Metafictionists
Chapter 2 A World of Words—William Gass's Metafictional Essentials……
A The Influence of Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language on William Gass
B William Gass'S Primacy of Words in Ordinary and Literary Contexts
1 Language as the Medium in Perceiving the World
2 The Difference of Literary and Daily Languages
C William Gass's Theory of Fiction as a Linguistic Construct
1 The Nature of Textual Reality
2 Metaphors in Literary Context
3 The Concept of Characters in Fiction
D William Gass's Practice of a World of Words
1 Words of Mind in Omensetter's Luck ＆ In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
2 Words of Body in willie Master's Lonesome Wife
3 Words of Excavation in The Tunnel
E Reflections on William Gass's World of Words
Chapter 3 The Game of Sentences—William Gass's Metafictional Devices
A The Postmodem Frame and Frame-breaking Viewpoints
B Willam Gass's Theory of Narrative Structure
1 Sentences with Souls Inside
a Words of Poetic Quality
b Sentences of Consciousness
2 Metaphorical Structure
C William Gass's Narratives of Designed Chaos
1 Poetic Rhythm in Omensetter's Luck
2 Metaphorical Symbols in Omensetter's Luck,In the Heart of the Heart of the Country ＆ The Tunnel
3 The Visual Effect in willie Master's Lonesome Wife & The Tunnef
4 The Parody in"The Pedersen Kid","In the Heart of the Heart of the Country" ＆ The Tunnel
D The Language of William Gass's Fiction:Creating Heterocosm or Not?
Chapter 4 The Fiction as an Object Worthy of Love—William Gass's Metafictional Significance
A Art and Morality
1 Tap or GOng—A Debate between William Gass and John Gardner
2 william Gass's Artistic Value as an Object Worthy of Love
a Baby or Botticelli:the Choice between Art and Morality
b Trivialization in The Tunnel and"The Master of Secret Revenges"
B The Functions of the Artist
1 The Contemporary Debates over the Roles of the"Author"
2 William Gass's Role of the Artist
a The Artist as a Methodologist
b The Author and the Narrator
C The Reader and the Creation
1 Various Conceptualizations of Reading
2 The Reader as a Performer,a Listener and a Constructor
3 The Art of Reading in Willie Master's Lonesome Wife
D William Gass's Metafiction:A Paradox or Not?
Conclusion
Works Cited
附录一 将"元小说"进行到底的美国后现代派作家威廉·加斯
附录二 在中部地区的深处
附录三 幻影 戏仿 游戏——评威廉·加斯《在中部地区的深处》的元小说特点
附录四 威廉·加斯生平大事记
后记
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