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As a typical metafiction, ”Lost in the Funhouse” makes use of an intrusive narrator, the comments on the novel-writing process and the deconstructed textual structure to illustrate the protagonist's contemplation at the time of his being lost in the funhouse. The contemplation is the author's reflection on the nature of novel-writing rather than the protagonist's random thoughts. All of the narrative devices employed contribute to the self-reflexiveness of the story as a metafiction and are parallel to Roland Barthes's three famous concepts: ”the death of the author,” ”writerly text,” and ”the pleasure of the text,” which feature the deconstructivism of postmodern texts.
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As a typical metafiction, ”Lost in the Funhouse” makes use of an intrusive narrator, the comments on the novel-writing process and the deconstructed textual structure to illustrate the protagonist's contemplation at the time of his being lost in the funhouse. The contemplation is the author's reflection on the nature of novel-writing rather than the protagonist's random thoughts. All of the narrative devices employed contribute to the self-reflexiveness of the story as a metafiction and are parallel to Roland Barthes's three famous concepts: ”the death of the author,” ”writerly text,” and ”the pleasure of the text,” which feature the deconstructivism of postmodern texts.
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