Metafiction and JM Coetzees Foe Essay -- Foe

Metafiction and JM Coetzees FoeIs writing not a fine thing, Friday? are you not filled with joy to know that you will live forever, afterward a manner? (Susan Barton, Foe, 58)Of the many literary conventions use to describe JM Coetzees Foe, 1 of the more commonly written about is metafiction. Since about 1970, the term metafiction has been used widely to discuss works of post-modern fiction and has been the source of heated deliberate on whether its employ marks the death or the rebirth of the novel. A dominant theme in post-modern fiction, the term metafiction has been defined by literary critics in multiple ways. John Barth offers perhaps the most simplified description metafiction is a novel that imitates a novel rather than the real world. Patricia Waugh extends our collar to add that it is fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to itself as an artifact to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality. consort t o these definitions, metafiction concerns itself not with the creation of a new narra...