historiographic metafication

narcissistic narrative

nostalgia

parody

postmodernism

nationality

Canadian

occupation / innovator as

literary theorist

innovator in the field of

criticism

opera

University of Toronto

scientific organization

Royal Society of Canada

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

professor

literary scholar

literary critic

is a literary text that asserts an interpretation of the past while also remaining intensely self-reflexive, or self-critical of their own version of the truth as being partial, biased, incomplete.

historiographic metafiction to describe those literary texts that assert an interpretation of the past but are also intensely self-reflexive (i.e. critical of their own version of the truth as being partial, biased, incomplete, etc.) (Poetics, 122-123). Historiographic metafiction, therefore, allows us to speak constructively about the past in a way that acknowledges the falsity and violence of the 'objective' historian's past without leaving us in a totally bewildered and isolated present (as Jameson has it).' (wikipedia)

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is what you 'feel' when two different temporal moments, past and present, come together for you and, often, carry considerable emotional weight.

nostalgia is less a description of the entity itself than an attribution of a quality ofresponse [ ] nostalgia is not something you 'perceive' in an object... itis what you 'feel' when two different temporal moments, past andpresent, come together for you and, often, carry considerableemotional weight.

repetition with critical difference' (24)

is an approach that installs and then subverts the very concepts it challenges.

postmodernism is a contradictory phenomenon, one that uses and abuses, installs and then subverts, the very concepts it challenges'(Hutcheon, Poetics 3).

Linda Hutcheon

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