self-reflexivity

My introduction to Carver came through the Lish-edited stories that to me signalled a break from the formal experiments and self-reflexivity of postmodern American fiction but did not merely return to old-fashioned storytelling.

Writing and Publishing 2010

The fiction of writers like Donald Barthelme, John Barth, Robert Coover, as well as Sorrentino, through its self-reflexivity, its insistence that readers be aware of writing as writing, exposes the act of writing, of fiction-making, to a kind of ridicule.

Comedy in Literature 2010

Raymond Federman was generally associated with those American writers who in the 1960s and 70s began writing what is now called "metafiction," but there was always something about Federman's work that seemed different, its self-reflexivity even more radical and enacted in a more aggressive way.

Experimental Fiction 2010

And even that most notorious technique of postmodernism, self-reflexivity, is really as much a way of poking fun at the pretentions of fiction writers, their claims to adequately represent the world of experience in a direct and unmediated way, as it is to frustrate the expectations of unwary readers.

Postmodernism 2010

And the self-reflexivity in science fiction is very similar to music criticism, because neither genre gets respect from the literary establishment, give or take a Kingsley Amis or an Anthony Burgess in science fiction.

Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2 2009

Raymond Federman was generally associated with those American writers who in the 1960s and 70s began writing what is now called "metafiction," but there was always something about Federman's work that seemed different, its self-reflexivity even more radical and enacted in a more aggressive way.

Performing Its Own Self 2010

OkCupid perfected trendy self-reflexivity with its OkTrends blog, where it mines its wealth of data for unexpected truths.

Claire Gordon: A Digital Valentine Claire Gordon 2011

OkCupid perfected trendy self-reflexivity with its OkTrends blog, where it mines its wealth of data for unexpected truths.

Claire Gordon: A Digital Valentine Claire Gordon 2011

The author figure in JL's work actually may work in a way similar to that in Philip Roth's work, and, as Mark McGurl has recently shown, that kind of self-reflexivity may be a natural product, if understood in systems theory, of a particular kind of fiction.

Literary Researcher and Scholar: James Williams 2010

OkCupid perfected trendy self-reflexivity with its OkTrends blog, where it mines its wealth of data for unexpected truths.

Claire Gordon: A Digital Valentine Claire Gordon 2011