fictionality

Fictionality is the feature most commonly invoked to distinguish novels from histories.

These new romantic novelists could, at the same time, claim to explore the entire realm of fictionality.

And he self-consciously unmasks the fictionality of his fictions.

Textermination examines the fictionality of the novel from the point of view of the reading process.

Indeed, in reaction to the documentary pretensions of regionalist fiction, they sometimes insist on the fictionality of their work.

Ambush Bug is also aware of his fictionality and aware of events in other publishers' comic books.

At several points in the novel, the characters or narrator foreground their existence as characters in a story, further highlighting the book's fictionality.

Fabula and Fictionality in Narrative Theory.

Not to be confused with straightforward memoirs, in which writers tell lies about themselves in the guise of nonfiction, these books frankly proclaim their fictionality.

Again, it should be stressed that this is not just a postmodern game about the fictionality of novelistic characters (though it is that, too).

Rushdie is demonstrating not the fictionality of fiction (or of reality) but the difficulty of telling where fiction begins and ends.

By subverting the causal, linear logic of the traditional story, the novel emphasizes the fictionality inherent in any attempt to present the individual as a coherent whole.

The mystery surrounding the possible fictionality of her character led to an outing by the Los Angeles Times which thrust her into the mainstream spotlight.

It is unfortunate that a "prototype" approach, although repeatedly mentioned, is in practice largely sacrificed to a view of fictionality as a discrete and strictly defined category.

I would be more inclined than Dyer to salvage "the novel as a medium of expression," and indeed to reserve a special place for the fictionality of fiction.

The virtue of Lawrence Rudner's contribution to this genre is that he tells his Holocaust story with humble awareness of the fictionality of fiction.

The afore-mentioned tendency of writers to insist on the fictionality of their work is to be understood partly in the context of the attitude here expressed by Borges.

Mr. Skvorecky openly invites the reader to confront the question of fictionality through the ruminations of Lorraine Tracy, a k a Laurie Lee.

Given the general air of Borgesian fictionality surrounding this venture, one begins to feel that if David Wilson didn't exist, Lawrence Weschler would have had to invent him.

Tim O'Brien, as the narrator, comments on the fictionality of some of the war stories, commenting on the "truth" behind the story, though all of it is characterized as fiction.

The works which are aware of this predicament Federman has called 'surfiction' whose primary purpose 'will be to unmask its own fictionality, to expose the metaphor of its own fraudulence'.

Originally, these strategies were intended to strengthen the illusion of reality and mitigate the fictionality of fiction; Fowles uses them ironically to highlight the disconnect between fiction and reality.

Students must "learn how to listen, to recognize gaps, breaks, interruptions, repetitions, and not to see those just as a sign of fictionality, but as a kind of truth telling," Professor Caruth said.

Each warns of the consequences of failing to recognize the merits of the novel and the fictionality of many of the non-literary forms of representation which threaten to supplant it.

McHale points out that 'a character's knowledge of his own fictionality often functions as a kind of master-trope for determinism - cultural, historical, psychological determinism, but especially the inevitability of death'(123).