Semiotics of Metafiction
FAIN: FA-11772-77
Mas'ud Zavarzadeh
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY 13244-0001)
To write a book on meta-fiction which, through a generic approach employing the insights of linguistics as well as literary structuralism and semiology, will study what Roland Barthers calls "that asymptotic zone where literature appears to destroy itself as a language object without destroying itself as meta-language."