Hard-to-Google Lit. Crit. Queries...
May. 31st, 2014 12:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Is there a general term for novels (or other fictions) that contain/mention themselves? I mean, the novel is called The Book of Glum, and it's about someone who turns out to be writing or reading a book called The Book of Glum, or we're at least given to know that this is a world where The Book of Glum already exists?
Also, is there decent existing discussion (in journals or elsewhere) of this phenomenon?
Also, is there decent existing discussion (in journals or elsewhere) of this phenomenon?
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Date: 2014-05-31 07:08 pm (UTC)Re Hammer: 19th-century US President Grover Cleveland, as a young man, considered moving to Cleveland, Ohio, because he liked the idea of a town sharing his name. He decided against it when someone pointed out that this wasn't a very cogent reason.
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Date: 2014-05-31 07:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2014-05-31 07:53 pm (UTC)