In this term paper I will discuss how historiographic metafiction “reflects upon its own strategies of writing and constructing histories by drawing attention to the constructedness [and] subjectivity”. For this purpose, I will firstly elaborate the relationship of historio-graphic metafiction and narration in order to examine to which intention the narrative strategies are used by taking the example of the postmodernist novel A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes.

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Title: The Significance of Narrative Strategies in Historiographic Metafiction in Julian Barne's "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters"
College: Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Course: History in Contemporary Novels
Grade: 1,3
Author: Annika Klement (Author)
Publication Year: 2018
Pages: 9
Catalog Number: V440899
ISBN (eBook): 9783668797574
ISBN (Book): 9783668797581
Language: English
Tags: significance narrative strategies historiographic metafiction julian barne history world chapters

Quote paper: Annika Klement (Author), 2018, The Significance of Narrative Strategies in Historiographic Metafiction in Julian Barne's "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/440899

The Significance of Narrative Strategies in Historiographic Metafiction in Julian Barne's "A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters"

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