Fictionalization: The Poetics of Literary Self-Consciousness

Author / Editor
Indictor, Rina M.

Title
Fictionalization: The Poetics of Literary Self-Consciousness

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 1531A.

Description
TC is used (along with later works) to draw conclusions about authorial self-consciousness. There are applications to the "persona" and the author's fictionalization of his audience.
Includes discussion of technique in Chaucer's "Troilus," Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Diderot's "Jacques le fataliste," Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground," Beckett's "Film & Not I."

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.