Interpreting great classics of literature as metatheatre and metafiction : Ovid, Beowulf, Corneille, Racine, Wieland, Stoppard, and Rushdie
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Interpreting great classics of literature as metatheatre and metafiction : Ovid, Beowulf, Corneille, Racine, Wieland, Stoppard, and Rushdie
（Studies in comparative literature, v. 68）
Edwin Mellen Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-164)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume examines literary texts from different periods, literary traditions and cultures as metatheatre and metafiction. The works are analyzed for their impact on, and relation to, the seventeenth-century French drama, the eighteenth-century German novel, twentieth-century English drama, an old English epic text, Indian postmodernist fiction, as well as Greek and Roman Classical works of antiquity.
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Professor John T. Hamilton
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction by David Gallagher and Mary Ann Frese Witt
- Chapter 1:
- Metatheatre on Metatheatre: Kushner on Corneille
- Mary Ann Frese Witt (North Carolina State University)
- Chapter 2:
- Metatheatre and Philosophy: Tom Stoppard and the Juggling of Ideas
- Martin Puchner (Columbia University)
- Chapter 3:
- Jean Racine's and Matthew Maguire's Phaedras
- Athena Coronis (University of Patras)
- Chapter 4:
- Metaliterary Metaphor in Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Anita Nikkanen (Harvard University)
- Chapter 5: Manifesting Beowulf's Meta-Monsters
- Ali M. Meghdadi (University of California, Irvine)
- Chapter 6:
- Rushdie's Metafictional Extravaganza: Storytelling in The Enchantress of Florence and Midnight's Children
- Aparna Zambare (Central Michigan University)
- Chapter 7:
- Metafiction in Wieland's Geschichte des Agathon
- David Gallagher (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- Notes
- Bibliography.
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