The anti-epistemological impulses within O'Brien, Borges, and Gray's metafictional narratives

• Main Author: Balete, Candice Lauren Garcia
• Other Authors: Neil Murphy
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/69459
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis examines the various metafictional narrative devices in Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman, Jorge Luis Borges’ “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” and “The Library of Babel,” and Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. Through a close examination of the texts’ self-conscious references towards their...