Patricia Waugh observes that “all art is 'play'in its creation of other symbolic worlds”(1984,
34). In this essay, I argue that the readerly play involved in delineating textual possible …

In fictional texts, personal names (and more generally proper nouns) are considered to be
meaningful linguistic and cultural items since they often convey specific connotations to a …

This thesis seeks to develop a multi-perspective account on the complex aesthetic
phenomenon that is metafiction, and aims to nuance those broad definitions of the term that …

Pataphysics, most strongly identified with French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry (1873-
1907) is an esoteric philosophy that defies rational belief systems and exults in its inutility, its …

An apparent rift exists between the anti-aesthetic emphasis in postmodern and
contemporary literary theory, on the one hand, and readerly appreciations of and …

El solicitante declara conocer los términos de la convocatoria y se compromete a cumplir los
requisitos de la misma, consintiendo expresamente la notificación por medios telemáticos a …