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    1. Fabulation describes novels that violate standard expectations through experiments with subject matter, form, style, and temporal sequence, blending everyday life with fantasy, mythology, and nightmarish elements. 2. Metafiction draws attention to the writing process itself and reminds readers that the story is constructed rather than real through self-reflexive techniques like characters addressing the author. 3. Examples of fabulation and metafiction include Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and William Goldman's The Princess Bride which feature unrealistic elements and references to the fictional work's construction.

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    1. Fabulation describes novels that violate standard expectations through experiments with subject matter, form, style, and temporal sequence, blending everyday life with fantasy, mythology, and nightmarish elements. 2. Metafiction draws attention to the writing process itself and reminds readers that the story is constructed rather than real through self-reflexive techniques like characters addressing the author. 3. Examples of fabulation and metafiction include Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and William Goldman's The Princess Bride which feature unrealistic elements and references to the fictional work's construction.

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    1. Fabulation describes novels that violate standard expectations through experiments with subject matter, form, style, and temporal sequence, blending everyday life with fantasy, mythology, and nightmarish elements. 2. Metafiction draws attention to the writing process itself and reminds readers that the story is constructed rather than real through self-reflexive techniques like characters addressing the author. 3. Examples of fabulation and metafiction include Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and William Goldman's The Princess Bride which feature unrealistic elements and references to the fictional work's construction.

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    1. Fabulation describes novels that violate standard expectations through experiments with subject matter, form, style, and temporal sequence, blending everyday life with fantasy, mythology, and nightmarish elements. 2. Metafiction draws attention to the writing process itself and reminds readers that the story is constructed rather than real through self-reflexive techniques like characters addressing the author. 3. Examples of fabulation and metafiction include Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night and William Goldman's The Princess Bride which feature unrealistic elements and references to the fictional work's construction.

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    Fabulation and

    Metafiction
    Arien Malonzo
    Lyneth Manalastas
    Lance Valerio
    Jerome Reyes
    FABULATION
    Fabulation

    In literary criticism, the term fabulation was


    popularized by Robert Scholes, in his work The
    Fabulators, to describe the large and growing
    class of mostly 20th century novels.
    It is similar to magical realism, but do not fit into the
    traditional categories of realism or
    (novelistic) romance.
    He was an American
    literary critic and theorist.
    He is known for his ideas
    on fabulation and
    metafiction.

    Robert Scholes
    Scholes defined writers
    master fabulators in the tradition
    of the Romance and its baroque
    configurations, writers who are
    all absorbed by the possibilities
    of playful and artful construction
    Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

     It had unrealistic turns of


    events.
     "You're obsessed with the
    notion of pure hearts and
    heroism. You love good and
    you hate evil ...and you'd
    sacrifice anything in the name
    of romance,"
    Fabulation

    They violate, in a variety of ways, standard novelistic


    expectations by drastic experiments with subject matter,
    form, style, temporal sequence.
     fusions of the everyday, fantastic, mythical, and
    nightmarish, in renderings that blur traditional distinctions
    between what is serious or trivial, horrible or ludicrous,
    tragic or comic.
    METAFICTION
    Metafiction

    Although implicit in many other types of fictional


    works, self-reflexivity often becomes the dominant
    subject of postmodern fiction.
    Metafiction

    The narrator of a metafictional work will call


    attention to the writing process itself.
    The reader is never to forget that what she is
    reading is constructed--not natural, not "real."
    He or She is never to get "lost" in the story.
    Metafiction

    Ex. “Hey, don’t get cheeky with me, sonny. I


    created you and I can just as easily kill you
    off.”
    Metafiction

    Patricia Waugh, “Metafictional works, she suggests, are


    those which "explore a theory of writing fiction through
    the practice of writing fiction.”
    Metafiction

    Most theorists agree that metafiction cannot be classified


    as a genre nor as the definitive mode of postmodern
    fiction.
    ”A self-reflexivity prompted by the author's awareness of
    the theory underlying the construction of fictional works.”
    Metafiction

    Characteristics:
     examining fictional systems
     incorporating aspects of both theory and criticism
     creating biographies of imaginary writers
     presenting and discussing fictional works of an imaginary
    character
    The Princess Bride by William Goldman

    “This is my favorite
    book in all the
    world, though I
    have never read
    it..”

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