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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 소설/시/희곡 > 문학비평 > 유럽
· ISBN : 9781032649467
· 쪽수 : 284쪽
· 출판일 : 2025-09-28
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction??
The author??????
The text: informed misreadings
The context
Critical approaches
Exemplifying the method: the early short stories??????
Exhibit 1: “Homemade” ? reading silence, reading against irony
Exhibit 2: “Solid Geometry” ? a story of deconstruction
Exhibit 3: “Butterflies” ? a story of the reader’s entrapment
Exhibit 4: “Reflections of a Kept Ape” ? metafiction par excellence
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I. Inverting Reality in Fiction: The Cement Garden
A dream within a dream????????
Liminal nightmares
Voices, visions, delusions
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II. Inverting Metafiction: The Comfort of Strangers
The oneiric city
Intimate strangers, monstrous doubles
The villains
The victims
The carnivorous city
Inverted metafiction
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III. Inverting Time: The Child in Time
Dystopia now
The voice and the eye
The time machine
The clock and The Bell
The forking paths: the conception scene
Frames: the abduction scene
The child in language
The double: Charles Darke’s case
Enchanted time: the other girl
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IV. Inverting Story: The Innocent
The unwritten novel: first ideas
Narration: the phantom frame
Levels of clearance
The city of spies
Innocence
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V. Inverting History: Black Dogs
The words of a dead (wo)man are modified in the guts of the living
The shadow line
“I cannot quite remember”
Postmemory and post-witnesses
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VI. Inverting the Authors: Atonement
Postmodernism with a moral
Drafts and versions
The puzzle of the letters, the puzzle of the dates
The hidden “author”
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VII. (Mis)Reading against Misreadings: On Chesil Beach
Nostalgic memory
Metamorphoses: music, writing and shared memory ? “Theft”
Arrested development
The (m)Elodie of memory
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Concluding Thoughts
Enduring Love: writing letters to oneself
Amsterdam: “he alone would make the speech”
Saturday: metafiction as (un)seeing through another’s eyes
Solar: unwriting the hero
Sweet Tooth: metafiction as a spy game
The Children Act: unnatural narration
Nutshell: unnatural narrator in a metafictional Hamlet
Machines like Me: sleeping with the enemy
Lessons: auto-bi(bli)ography
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References
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Index
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