Re: TARGET: literary device or genre?

[Kerry Neary <nearyf@GIL.COM.AU>]

To respond to the original question, and trying to keep things as simple as
possible, metafiction, i.e. writing fiction about fiction, is a literary
device because it controls how the storyline is developed.

The genre, i.e. the writing type, would be defined by what the story is
about - adventure, scifi, fantasy, historical etc. - which controls the
language characterics used.

In my humble opinion
Cheers from Oz :)
Kerry Neary
Retired TL
nearyf@gil.com.au


----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Credaro" <abcredaro@OZEMAIL.COM.AU>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: TARGET: literary device or genre?


> Robert Eiffert wrote:
>
> Oh, Great! As though I don't have enough catalog work to do! Now I get to
> go
> fix MORE genre tags.....

> Amanda Credaro wrote:
> <snip>  my guess is the correct term
>> would be Historical Metafiction .  metafiction being (literally) "fiction
>> about fiction", so if there's a 'found manuscript' in the plot, then

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