How Long to Read Beyond the Metafictional Mode

How Long Does it Take to Read Beyond the Metafictional Mode?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read Beyond the Metafictional Mode by Robert C. Spires

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The term metafiction invaded the vocabulary of literary criticism around 1970, yet the textual strategies involved in turning fiction back onto itself can be traced through several centuries. In this theoretical/critical study Robert C. Spires examines the nature of metafiction and chronicles its evolution in Spain from the time of Cervantes to the 1970s, when the obsession with novelistic self-commentary culminated in an important literary movement. The critical portions of this study focus primarily on twentieth-century works. Included are analyses of Unamuno's Niebla, Jarnés's Locura y muerte de nadie and La novia del viento, Torrente Ballester's Don Juan, Cunquiero's Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes, and three novels from the "self-referential" movement of the 1970s, Juan Goytisolo's Juan sin Tierra, Luis Goytisolo's La colera de Aquiles, and Martín Gaite's El cuarto de atrás. Seeking a stronger theoretical basis for his critical readings, Spires offers a sharpened definition of the term metafiction. The mode arises, he declares, through an intentional violation of the boundaries that normally separate the worlds of the author, the fiction, and the reader. Building on theoretical foundations laid by Frye, Scholes, Genette, and others, Spires also proposes a literary paradigm that places metafiction in a position intermediate between fiction and literary theory. These theoretical formulations place Spires's book in the forefront of critical thought. At the same time, his full-scale analyses of Spanish metafictional works will be welcomed by Hispanists and other students of world literature.

How long is Beyond the Metafictional Mode?

Beyond the Metafictional Mode by Robert C. Spires is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.

This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Beyond the Metafictional Mode Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read Beyond the Metafictional Mode aloud.

What Reading Level is Beyond the Metafictional Mode?

Beyond the Metafictional Mode is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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