CHL 436C Metafiction & Self-Reflexivity
Examines central aspects of metafiction in literature for children and young adults with particular attention to framing devices, polyphonic narrations, obtrusive narrators, parodic play, intertextuality, typographic experimentation, and a mingling of styles, genres, and modes of discourse. Looks at fluid meaning-making within and across texts, foregrounds playfulness in literary creation, and investigates shifting subject positions offered to readers through self-reflexive texts.