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T1 Metalepses and Shoelaces: Advanced Narrative Resources in Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine
A1 Mora-Rioja, Arturo
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 
AB Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine (1988) bends narrative boundaries to the extreme. This article analyses the novel’s postmodern metatextuality, its confrontation of high culture and mass culture, its exploration of recursive thought processes, its inclusion of constantly shifting time references, and the function of its autodiegetic narrator. Special attention is given to the use of the footnote as a narrative device as it allows Baker to develop Gérard Genette’s concept of narrative metalepsis. Because of the unique way these advanced narrative resources are interwoven, the novel deserves wider academic attention as a milestone in contemporary literature in English.
SN 2531-1654
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/44025
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/44025
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 40 (2019) pags. 57-75
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-dic-2024