{"product_id":"9780820444086","title":"Playing the Reader: The Homoerotics of Self-Reflexive Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eMetafictional texts frequently construct both their narrators and readers as male. The relationship between the narrator and reader within the novel is often dismissed, but in many cases it is the most intimate relationship in the novel. Drawing from such disparate frameworks as queer theory, reader theory, and game theory, this work argues that within specific metafictional novels, a strong homoerotic metanarrative exists despite the heterosexual relationships at the narrative level. The texts that this work addresses are Laurence Sterne’s \u003ci\u003eTristram Shandy\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Miller’s \u003ci\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/i\u003e, Julio Cortazar’s \u003ci\u003eHopscotch\u003c\/i\u003e, Milorad Pavic’s \u003ci\u003eDictionary of the Khazars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLandscape Painted with Tea\u003c\/i\u003e, and Carlos Fuentes’ \u003ci\u003eChristopher Unborn\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021186810096,"sku":"9780820444086","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780820444086_p0.jpg?v=1763750602","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780820444086","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}