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Tag Archives: Metafiction
The Art/ist
“Down the stairs, back in time, until she came upon herself and Cal standing in front of Picasso’s Weeping Woman at the Tate in London. Claire could still visualize the portrait today—the blue in her hair, the red in her … Continue reading →
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A Few Disjointed Late Night Thoughts on Kelly’s Inspired Hot Mess of a Movie
Rewatching Southland Tales after reading the prequel saga I’m conflicted in my response to Kelly’s film. On the one hand, I admire his ambitious attempt to create a complex narrative given filmic expression through a consistently rich visual language that … Continue reading →
Names
Someone has already brought up the the importance of names (specifically that of Mark/being unMarked), but I found the issue to be even wider-ranging than that. It’s fairly clear that in WTCOETIW David Foster Wallace is aligning his sympathies – … Continue reading →
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Kia Hamsters and Meta Fiction for Extra Credit
http://www.superbowlcommercials2012.net/2012/01/kia-hamsters-super-bowl-2012.html The commercial for KIA with the hamsters can be related to David Foster Wallace and his attempt to make fun of fiction. His meta fiction novel had some moments that were blatantly obvious that he was making fun of … Continue reading →
David Foster Wallace on “Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way”
“My idea in ‘Westward’ was to do with metafiction what Moore’s poetry or like DeLillo’s Libra had done with other mediated myths. I wanted to get the Armageddon-explosion, the goal metafiction’s always been about, I wanted to get it over … Continue reading →
Self reference on self reference…
All to sell a car.
“It’s About Nothing”
Someone mentioned Seinfeld in class the other day, and while this may not be the most scholarly post on this blog thus far, I feel that it does have relevance to what we’ve been discussing- especially in light of our … Continue reading →
Post Postmodern Filmmaking
This clip from the TV show Community reminded me a lot of some of the class discussions we’ve been having, especially our discussions about Benjamin.
