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Historiographic metafiction is a term coined by Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon in the late 1980s. It incorporates three domains: fiction, history, and theory. [1] Concept. The term is used for works of fiction which combine the literary devices of metafiction with historical fiction.
Mar 7, 2022 · Literary works are recognized as historiographic metafiction if they possess certain elements. Referencing Georg Lukács', Linda Hutcheon emphasizes three traits of historiographic metafiction.
Apr 5, 2016 · A term originally coined by Linda Hutcheon, in A Poetics of Postmodernism, historiographic metafiction includes those postmodern works, usually popular novels, which are “both intensely self-reflexive and paradoxically lay claim to historical events and personages”.
Historiographic Metafiction. L. Hutcheon. Published 2007. History. What we tend to call postmodernism in literature today is usually characterized by intense self-reflexivity and overtly parodic intertextuality. In fiction this means that it is usually metafiction that is equated with the postmodern.
Historiographic Metafiction Parody and the Intertextuality of History. Author: Hutcheon, Linda. Issue Date: 1989. Publisher: Johns Hopkins University. Citation: Hutcheon, Linda. "Historiographic Metafiction Parody and the Intertextuality of History" Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Ed.
Hutcheon coined the term historiographic metafiction to describe those literary texts that assert an interpretation of the past but are also intensely self-reflexive (i.e. critical of their own version of the truth as being partial, biased, incomplete, etc.) (Poetics, 122-123).
Historiographic Metafiction: Structural Adaptation of Linda Hutcheon’s Theory as Strategy for Understanding the Poetics of the Historical Novel. December 2015. Colloquia 35:13-33. DOI:...
