... a lot of talk, but authors have long written in a way as to make the reader take an introspective and self-conscience look at their work. Don Quixote, and even Shakespeare's Hamlet, have been labeled as containing elements of metafiction; and in this regard some critics claim that the definitions for metafiction, and their application, are too broad to be used with ... 's awareness of the theory underlying the construction of fictional works" (Waugh 2). From a philosophical standpoint Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the founders of postmodernist thinking, stated that "there are no facts, onl...

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