Britské povídky

D. Lodge: “Hotel des Boobs”

Post-modern features:
• (black) humor, satire, irony, parody- playful texts
• pastiche, collage - putting together material coming from completely different contexts = celebration of different styles
• magic realism
- using the supernatural

• An example of intertextuality is an author’s borrowing and transformation of a prior text or to a reader’s referencing of one text in reading another. Sometimes intertextuality is taken as plagiarism as in the case of Spanish writer Lucía Etxebarria whose poem collection Estación de infierno (2001) was found to contain metaphors and verses from Antonio Colinas. Etxebarria claimed that she admired him and applied intertextuality. every writer or speaker 'is a reader of texts (in the broadest sense) before s/he is a creator of texts, and therefore the work of art is inevitably shot through with references, quotations, and influences of every kind'

Metafiction - fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions and traditional narrative techniques. examples:
A story about a writer creating a story
A story about a reader reading a book
A story containing another work of fiction within itself
A story in which the characters are aware that they are in a story