Open AccessEmbedded Structure of Oracle Night as a Metafiction
Author(s) -
Hui Ni
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
theory and practice in language studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-0692
pISSN - 1799-2591
DOI - 10.4304/tpls.3.7.1281-1287
Subject(s) - metafiction , oracle , literature , history , computer science , psychology , art , narrative , programming language
As one of America’s most creative and outstanding postmodernist writers, Paul Auster’s novels have received worldwide popularity. His masterpiece Oracle Night was written in 2003 when the literary postmodernism has boomed and metafiction has become a typical postmodernist writing model. This paper aims to study the embedded structure of his Oracle Night, which has been, in part at least, neglected by literary criticism both in China and in foreign countries. Based on detailed textual analysis, the study describes the structural degrees and the corresponding relations between each.