Saturday 11 November 2017

Perspectives: Lecture 7 - Key Words




•  Metafiction 
Metafiction is an example of the self-awarewareness which is often found in postmodernism. Rather than trying to pass itself off as a window on the world and disguise its structure and techniques, metafiction tells the viewer that it is artificial.  story-within-a-story, making obvious references to storytelling conventions and breaking the 4th wall are examples of Metafiction


•  Intertextuality
Refers to the relationship between literary text in which that text reflects and influences other texts.  Intertextuality is an important stage in understanding a piece of literature, as it is necessary to see how other works have influenced the author and how different texts are employed in the piece to convey certain meanings.

•  Mise-en-abyme
is the a form of self reflection in which ones image is seen more than once. A film within a film or a dream within a dream is an example of Mise-en-abyme.

•  The 4th Wall
The fourth wall is the imaginative space that separates the performer or actor between the audience or the viewer. In film breaking the 4th wall is when the actors look at the camera denoting to the audience of their fictional nature such as when Peter looks directly at the camera in Funny Games.

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