An analysis of metafictional self-reflexivity in laurence sterne's the life and opinions of tristram shandy and William Gass' willie masters' lonesome wife

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This thesis evaluates metafictional self-reflexivity, and presents it within the scope of certain structuralist and post-structuralist approaches especially by referring to William Gass̕ definition of metafiction and Raymond Federman̕s theories on the devices of metafiction. Then aspects of the works of William Gass̕ Willie Master̕s Lonesome Wife and Laurence Sterne̕s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy are discussed within this framework.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15556

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Ş. Okuroğlu, “An analysis of metafictional self-reflexivity in laurence sterne’s the life and opinions of tristram shandy and William Gass’ willie masters’ lonesome wife,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.