Raymond Federman

Metafiction

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on October 7, 2022

Though the term metalanguage—a language that describes or analyzes another language— was in use well before the 1960s, it was around this time that theorists including Roman Jakobson (Linguistics and Poetics [1960]) and Roland Barthes (Mythologies [1957] and Elements of… Read More ›

Fragmentation in Postmodern Novels

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 2, 2017 • ( 1 )

John Hawkes once divulged that when he began to write he assumed that “the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme”. Certainly many subsequent authors have done their best to sledgehammer these four literary cornerstones into… Read More ›