Metafiction and JM Coetzees Foe Essay -- Foe

Metafiction and JM Coetzees FoeIs writing not a fine thing, Friday? be you not filled with joy to know that you will live forever, subsequently a manner? (Susan Barton, Foe, 58)Of the many literary conventions use to describe JM Coetzees Foe, ane 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 fence in 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 rendering metafiction is a novel that imitates a novel rather than the real world. Patricia Waugh extends our savvy 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. fit in to these definitions, metafiction concerns itself not with the creation of a new narra...