Metanarration and Metafiction

Neumann, Birgit; Nünning, Ansgar

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“…Master narratives, in contrast, mask their own narrativity. Second, metanarrativity (or metanarrative commentary) is a narratological term for self-reflexive narration in which the narrators reflect on their own process of narration (see, e.g., Fludernik 1996Fludernik , 2003Neumann and Nünning 2014;Macrae 2019).…”

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Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models

Meretoja

2022

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

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This chapter examines a new form of autofiction that has emerged in the twenty-first century, which the chapter proposes to call metanarrative autofiction. Such writing displays awareness of how our ways of narrating our lives are socially, culturally, and historically conditioned. The chapter conceptualizes metanarrativity in this context as a form of self-reflexive storytelling that makes narrative its theme, reflecting not only on the process of its own narration but also on the roles of cultural narrative models in making sense of our lives. The chapter discusses affordances of metanarrative autofiction in Annie Ernaux’s Les Années (The Years) (2008), Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Min kamp (My Struggle) (2009–2011), and the Finnish singer-songwriter Astrid Swan’s Viimeinen kirjani (2019, My Last Book).

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Section: Hanna Meretojamentioning

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Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models

Meretoja

2022

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing

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“…While metanarration covers "the narrator's reflections on the act or pro-cess of narration", metafiction rather concerns "comments on the fictionality and/or constructedness of the narrative." 43 For both types, textual illustrations are given from Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (example 12, 14).…”

Section: Metanarration and Metafiction (Mandm)mentioning

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Annotation Guidelines for Narrative Levels and Narrative Acts v2

Barth

2021

Journal of Cultural Analytics

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The concept of narrative levels is widely applied in Literary Studies but often based on different theoretical foundations. To operationalise the concept with a reproducible category for a machine learning approach, these guidelines focus on two core definitions of narrative levels, namely Genette's concept of a narrator change and Ryan's proposal of illocutionary and ontological boundaries between levels. We separate the notions of "level" and "narrative" into dedicated subcategories for the narrative level, which reflects a vertical dimension, and the narrative act that encompasses horizontally aligned stories. Furthermore, supplementary aspects, like the boundary type between narrative levels or related phenomena like metanarration and metalepsis, are captured as attributes in conjunction with the annotation category to obtain additional knowledge that might be relevant as training data. The guideline is divided into a first part that discusses narratological theory to define the annotation category as well as the attributes and a second part that gives annotation instructions along with textual examples.

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“…[21] Given hypertext's ability to exfoliate nodes and links of many kinds in all directions, it is easy for hypertexts to become selfreferential. See, for instance, the self-comments in afternoon, the self-analogies in Patchwork Girl [7], or the story of its own composition and performance in The Unknown [22].…”

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“…what Fludernik ([3], p. 341) has called the "frame of storytelling." [21] Perhaps, though, we should talk less about naturalizing and denaturalizing, which suggest that normal narratives are doing something illegitimate or socially repressive. We should talk of metafiction as making clear how a narrative voice or a story world that appears seamless and immediate is really internally complex and mediated by connections among conflicting internal and external multiplicities.…”

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Kolb

2012

Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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This paper starts with an introductory essay stating the issues and discussing the notion of metafiction. Then it continues in an online hypertext narrative demonstration of the interweaving of story and meta-story. The hypertext attempts to show in action how seemingly unified narratives and narrative voices are surrounded and influenced by other voices and meta-stories. No narrative is un-mediated and no narrative voice is alone. The hypertext concludes with some musings on the complexities of narrative reading and writing, also with counterpoint voices. Throughout, the text comments on issues about the reading and writing of hypertext narratives.

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Metanarration and Metafiction

Cited by 8 publications

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Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models

Metanarrative Autofiction: Critical Engagement with Cultural Narrative Models

Annotation Guidelines for Narrative Levels and Narrative Acts v2

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