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Acknowledgements
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1) Postmodernism's Wake: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction
2) "To thine own self be true": Eight Theses on Authenticity
Thesis One: It is impossible to clearly define authenticity
Thesis Two: The History of Authenticity is a History of Loss
Thesis Three: Authenticity both presupposes and generates a notion of self
Thesis Four: Authenticity is both the antithesis to postmodern simulation and the ultimate simulacrum itself
Thesis Five: Recent media transformations necessitate a rethinking of authenticity
Thesis Six: Authenticity is an emergent phenomenon
Thesis Seven: Authenticity functions as a black box which sublates discursive dichotomies
Thesis Eight: Metareference constitutes an appropriate formal approach to authenticity
3) Holding the Mirror up to Fiction: Metareference in Art
The Truth and Nothing But: Does Realism Still Matter?
A Framework for Reconstruction: The Metareferential Turn
Essentially Strange Loops: Metareference as Tangled Hierarchy
4) From Innocence to Ignorance: Julian Barnes's England, England
5) Reconstructing the Author: Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
6) Reconstructing Literary Influence: Jasper Fforde's Thursday-Next Series
Revisitations and Revisions: The Eyre Affair
Inside Literature: Reconstructing Thursday Next
7) Reconstructing Narration: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad and Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
Narrative Assemblage: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad
Implicit Narrative: Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
8) Remainder
Bibliography
Index.
Abbreviations
1) Postmodernism's Wake: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction
2) "To thine own self be true": Eight Theses on Authenticity
Thesis One: It is impossible to clearly define authenticity
Thesis Two: The History of Authenticity is a History of Loss
Thesis Three: Authenticity both presupposes and generates a notion of self
Thesis Four: Authenticity is both the antithesis to postmodern simulation and the ultimate simulacrum itself
Thesis Five: Recent media transformations necessitate a rethinking of authenticity
Thesis Six: Authenticity is an emergent phenomenon
Thesis Seven: Authenticity functions as a black box which sublates discursive dichotomies
Thesis Eight: Metareference constitutes an appropriate formal approach to authenticity
3) Holding the Mirror up to Fiction: Metareference in Art
The Truth and Nothing But: Does Realism Still Matter?
A Framework for Reconstruction: The Metareferential Turn
Essentially Strange Loops: Metareference as Tangled Hierarchy
4) From Innocence to Ignorance: Julian Barnes's England, England
5) Reconstructing the Author: Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
6) Reconstructing Literary Influence: Jasper Fforde's Thursday-Next Series
Revisitations and Revisions: The Eyre Affair
Inside Literature: Reconstructing Thursday Next
7) Reconstructing Narration: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad and Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
Narrative Assemblage: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad
Implicit Narrative: Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
8) Remainder
Bibliography
Index.