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Publication: "You will see the logic of the design of this": From Historiography to Taxonomography in the Contemporary Metafiction of Sarah Waters's Affinity

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Waters's Affinity reveals the limitations of historiographic metafiction and its association with new(meta)realism.
M.-L. Kohlke argues that the text's design functions provoke a reconsideration of narrative forms.
The investigation emphasizes how contemporary metafiction reshapes readers' understanding of historical narratives.
Taxonomography serves as a framework to explore the theoretical nuances in the storytelling of Affinity.

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This analysis examines the concept of taxonomography in Waters's work, highlighting its implications in contemporary metafiction.

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Although, in some ways, Sarah Waters's Affinity looks akin to historiographic metafiction, M.-L. Kohlke has persuasively argued that the text is more accurately dubbed "new(meta)realism", a mode that demonstrates the exhausted potential of the form.

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Martin Paul Eve (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68de70f583cbc991d0a2337e https://doi.org/10.59348/xdmxm-64s82

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Implication

This analysis examines the concept of taxonomography in Waters's work, highlighting its implications in contemporary metafiction.

Publication: "You will see the logic of the design of this": From Historiography to Taxonomography in the Contemporary Metafiction of Sarah Waters's Affinity

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Publication: "You will see the logic of the design of this": From Historiography to Taxonomography in the Contemporary Metafiction of Sarah Waters's Affinity

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