Patricia Waugh
| Professor Patricia Waugh | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Professor of English |
| Organization | Durham University |
| Known for | work on literary theory, metafiction, and postmodernism |
| Notable work | Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction |
Patricia Waugh is a literary critic and professor of English literature at Durham University. She is a specialist in modernist and post-modernist literature, post-modernist theory and feminist theory. Along with Linda Hutcheon, Waugh is notable as one of the first critics to work on metafiction and, in particular, for her influential 1984 study, Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction.[1][2]
She joined the department of English studies at Durham University in 1989, became a professor in 1997, and was head of department between 2005 and 2008.
Published works
- Blackwell History of British Fiction: 1945-present (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009)
- Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (London: Routledge, 1984)
- Revolutions of the Word: Intellectual Contexts for the Study of Modern Literature (London: Edward Arnold, 1997)
- Feminine Fictions: Revisiting the Postmodern (Oxford: Routledge, 1989)
Edited works
- Literary Theory and Criticism: an Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
- With Philip Rice, Modern Literary Theory: A Reader (New York: Hodder Arnold, 2001)
- With David Fuller, The Arts and Science of Criticism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
References
- ↑ Holmesland, Oddvar (1985-01-01). "Patricia Waugh: Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction". American Studies in Scandinavia 17 (2): 94–96. ISSN 0044-8060.
- ↑ Nadel, Alan (1985-01-01). "Fictional Space in the Modernist and Postmodernist American Novel, and: Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction, and: The Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation, and: IN FORM: Digressions on the Act of Fiction (review)". MFS Modern Fiction Studies 31 (4): 759–763. doi:10.1353/mfs.0.1321. ISSN 1080-658X.
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