Open AccessNEW BOOKS ON METATEXTUALITY
Author(s) -
Yury I. Semenchenko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
praktiki and interpretacii
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2415-8852
DOI - 10.18522/2415-8852-2021-2-151-159
Subject(s) - metafiction , narrative , comics , compendium , interpretation (philosophy) , literature , trilogy , foregrounding , postmodernism , modernism (music) , history , art , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology
The review considers recent scholar publications of foreign researchers devoted to the phenomenon of metatextuality, in particular “Metafiction Short Story Writers” (2016) by G. Brand, the chapter “World Building and Metafiction in Contemporary Comic Books” by D. Mellier in the collective monograph “World Building. Transmedia, Fans, Industries” (2017), as well as A. Macrae’s monograph “Discourse deixis in metafiction” (2019). G. Brand’s book presents itself as a kind of compendium of short prose by those authors who, in one way or another, have thematized the creative process. In reviewing the work by D. Mellier, emphasis is laid on the subgenre of meta-comics identified by the scholar. The monograph by A. Macrae can become a solid foundation for a linguistic interpretation both postmodernist metafiction and textual experiments of high modernism (S. Beckett, A. Artaud, T. Bernhard, etc.). The review concludes that research in recent years is helping to fill gaps in the description of narrative and linguistic markers and tools of metatextuality.