
Playing the Reader
The Homoerotics of Self-Reflexive Fiction
Michael Hardin(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Will be published approx. on 4. February 2000
Book
Hardback
157 pages
978-0-8204-4408-6 (ISBN)
Description
Metafictional texts frequently construct both their narrators and readers as male. The relationship between the narrator and reader within the novel is often dismissed, but in many cases it is the most intimate relationship in the novel. Drawing from such disparate frameworks as queer theory, reader theory, and game theory, this work argues that within specific metafictional novels, a strong homoerotic metanarrative exists despite the heterosexual relationships at the narrative level. The texts that this work addresses are Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch, Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars and Landscape Painted with Tea, and Carlos Fuentes' Christopher Unborn.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15 cm
Weight
350 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-4408-6 (9780820444086)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
The Author: Michael Hardin is Adjunct Instructor at Bloomsburg University (PA). He has published widely in contemporary American and Latin American fiction, literary theory, and cultural criticism.