Abstract
Summary This article explores the relationship between American meta‐fiction of the 1960's and 1970's and postmodernist theoretical discourse. It is the contention of the author that a reader's response to postmodern American fiction is assisted by recent theories of authorship and readership, and also that the problems raised by postmodernist meta‐fiction have a bearing on postmodernist discourse itself. Using illustrations from meta‐fictional and theoretical discourses, a link is suggested between the two: both resist ‘the hegemony of representational truth’, undermine authority in all its forms and threaten the reader's sense of security.
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