威廉.加斯的元小說理論與實(shí)踐

Introduction
Chapter1 Mefafiction and Postemodernism
A.Fredric Jameson s Pariodizing Hypothesis
B.Definitions of Metafiction by Furopean and American Wreiters and Critics
1.Various Definitions of Meatfiction
2.The Relationship between Metafiction and Postmodernism
3.Metafiction and Its ALternative Terms
C.General Issues and Signs of Metafication
1.The Arbitrariness of Language
2.The Artificiality of Fiction
3.The Paradoxical Status of Author
4.Intertextuality
D.William Gass on Metafication
1.William Gass as A Language Philosopher and a Metafictionist
2.The Characteristics of William Gass s Metafictional Theory and Practice
3.William Gass Compard with Other Metafictionists
Chapter2 A World of Words-William Gass s Metyafictional 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.Metaphiors in Literary Context
3.The Concept of Characters in Fiction
D.William Gass s Practice of a World of Words
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E.Reflections on William Gass s World of Words
Chapter3 The Game of Sentences_William Gass s Metafictional Devices
A.The Postemodern Frame and Frame-breaking Viewpoints
B.William Gass s Theory of Narrative Structiure
C.William Gass s Narratives of Designed Chaos
D.The Language of William Gass s Fiction:Creating Heterocosm or Not?
Chapter4 The Fiction as an Object Worthy of Love-William Gass s Metafictional Significance
A.Art and Morality
B.The Functions of the Artist
C.The Readerand the Creation
Conclusion
Works Cited
附錄一 將“元小說”進(jìn)行到底的美國后現(xiàn)代派作家威廉·加斯
附錄二 幻影 戲仿 游戲——評威廉·加斯《在中部地區(qū)的深處》的元小說特點(diǎn)
附錄三 《在中部地區(qū)的深處》
附錄四 威廉·加斯生平大事記
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