威廉.加斯的元小说理论与实践

本书旨在深入探讨威廉·加斯这位难懂而又出色的作家的后现代主义观点、文字创新、对文字的关注以及他在作品、作家和读者作用方面的哲学观点，从而理解加斯作为美国战后文坛最伟大的元小说家之一的重要地位。

Introduction
Chapter1 Mefafiction and Postemodernism
A.Fredric Jameson s Pariodizing Hypothesis
B.Definitions of Metafiction by Furopean and American Wreiters and Critics
1.Various Definitions of Meatfiction
2.The Relationship between Metafiction and Postmodernism
3.Metafiction and Its ALternative Terms
C.General Issues and Signs of Metafication
1.The Arbitrariness of Language
2.The Artificiality of Fiction
3.The Paradoxical Status of Author
4.Intertextuality
D.William Gass on Metafication
1.William Gass as A Language Philosopher and a Metafictionist
2.The Characteristics of William Gass s Metafictional Theory and Practice
3.William Gass Compard with Other Metafictionists
Chapter2 A World of Words-William Gass s Metyafictional Essentials
A.The Influence of Wittgenstein s Philosophy of Language on William Gass
B.William Gass s Primacy of Words in Ordinary and Literary Contexts
1.Language as the Medium in Perceiving the World
2.The Difference of Literary and Daily Languages
C.William Gass s Theory of Fiction as a Linguistic Construct
1.The Nature of Textual Reality
2.Metaphiors in Literary Context
3.The Concept of Characters in Fiction
D.William Gass s Practice of a World of Words
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E.Reflections on William Gass s World of Words
Chapter3 The Game of Sentences_William Gass s Metafictional Devices
A.The Postemodern Frame and Frame-breaking Viewpoints
B.William Gass s Theory of Narrative Structiure
C.William Gass s Narratives of Designed Chaos
D.The Language of William Gass s Fiction:Creating Heterocosm or Not?
Chapter4 The Fiction as an Object Worthy of Love-William Gass s Metafictional Significance
A.Art and Morality
B.The Functions of the Artist
C.The Readerand the Creation
Conclusion
Works Cited
附录一 将“元小说”进行到底的美国后现代派作家威廉·加斯
附录二 幻影 戏仿 游戏——评威廉·加斯《在中部地区的深处》的元小说特点
附录三 《在中部地区的深处》
附录四 威廉·加斯生平大事记
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