Genre of primarily 20th-century novelistic fiction similar in style to magic realism
For the Lynn Nottage play, see Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine.
In literary criticism, the term fabulation was popularized by Robert Scholes, in his work The Fabulators, to describe the large and growing class of mostly 20th-century novels that are in a style similar to magic realism, and do not fit into the traditional categories of realism or (novelistic) romance. As M. H. Abrams wrote,
[Such novels] violate, in various ways, standard novelistic expectations by drastic—and sometimes highly effective—experiments with subject matter, form, style, temporal sequence, and fusions of the everyday, the fantastic, the mythical, and the nightmarish, in renderings that blur traditional distinctions between what is serious or trivial, horrible or ludicrous, tragic or comic.[1]
Fabulating authors include Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, and Ishmael Reed.[1]
^ abAbrams, M. H. (2005). A Glossary of Literary Terms. With contributions by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Thomson/Wadsworth. p. 204. ISBN 1-4130-0218-8. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
In literary criticism, the term fabulation was popularized by Robert Scholes, in his work The Fabulators, to describe the large and growing class of mostly...
book Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations. Speculative fabulation is a concept that is included in many of Haraway's works. It includes...
Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern...
Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 24–25. ISBN 9780394469669. Scholes, Robert (1979). Fabulation and Metafiction. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. pp. 111–115. Wolf...
published and anthologized." Hartman introduces the idea of "critical fabulation" in her article "Venus in Two Acts," although she could be said to be...
an American literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction. Robert Scholes was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929...
and United States of Banana about the collapse of the American empire. Fabulation is a term sometimes used interchangeably with metafiction and relates...
Arts In the Red and Brown Water The Egungun Marin Theatre Company 2011 Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine Flow Barnes Calles The Lorraine Hansberry...
Outstanding New Revival – Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine 2019 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival – Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine...
Retrieved 27 January 2022. Billington, Michael (21 February 2006). "Fabulation". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 January 2022. Gardner, Lyn (28 February 2007)...
Street Theatre); Theresa Rebeck's Our House (2009, Playwrights Horizons); Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons (2004); A Very Common Procedure by Courtney Baron...
directed by David Esbjornson for which she was awarded her first Obie Award; Fabulation (2004) by Lynn Nottage, directed by Kate Whorisky at Playwright's Horizons;...
Title Role Theater Notes 2003 Pericles Pericles Red Bull Theater 2004 Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine Agent Duva/Flow/Dealer/Addict #2/Ensemble...
News. Retrieved 27 May 2024. Chow, Rey (27 March 2007). Sentimental Fabulations, Contemporary Chinese Films: Attachment in the Age of Global Visibility...
appeared in several other theatrical productions in London, UK, including: Fabulation, Tricycle Theatre Gem of the Ocean, Tricycle Theatre I.D., Almeida Theatre...
a time before history, involving religious underpinnings and themes. Fabulation: A class composed mostly of 20th-century novels that are in a style similar...
related terms such as "science fantasy", "speculative fiction", and "fabulation" are included where they are intended as definitions of aspects of science...
Challcrest Press Books. ISBN 1-929519-00-1. Scholes, Robert (1975). Structural Fabulation: An Essay on Fiction of the Future. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre...
ISBN 9780857710628. OCLC 956646181. Rosner, Daniela K. (2020). Critical Fabulations: reworking the methods and margins of design. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-54268-5...
Occupation Novelist poet short story writer Genre Magic realism gothic Western fabulation black comedy satire psychological fiction Literary movement Postmodernism...
murder of Stephen Lawrence, The Colour of Justice, and Lynn Nottage's Fabulation, directed by Indhu Rubasingham. In 1992, she won a Time Out Award for...
Country's Good Liz Morden/Lieutenant Dawes Nuffield Theatre, Southampton 2006 Fabulation Mother/Caseworker/Inmate Tricycle Theatre, London How Long Is Never? Darfur...
problems, as satire does. However, literary theorist Robert Scholes noted in Fabulation and Metafiction that Vonnegut "reject[s] the traditional satirist's faith...
Aperture. 229: 40–47 – via JSTOR. Nyong'o, Tavia (November 27, 2018). Afro-fabulations : the queer drama of Black life. NYU Press. ISBN 9781479856275. OCLC 1031956694...
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