Word: meta
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas. Cambridge is simply not the place for those who demand speedy or imaginative journeys...
...premise this complex and meta could easily turn into high-concept mush, but the many characters play off one another so deftly that instead of one obscuring the other, they illuminate the strange subtexts they have in common. At one point Moore and O'Neill bring in the mad scientist Dr. Moreau (as in The Island of--yet another bad movie), and the grotesque talking animals Moreau breeds become a sinister take on Mr. Toad from The Wind in the Willows and the talking rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, as well as--this is virtuosity in action, folks--the real...
...just ask his legion of rabid intellectual fans. But last week, about 150 Harvard students and faculty spent an hour getting closer to the post-postmodern hero than any of the countless readers of Eggers’ self-referential, hyperactive fiction, pyrotechnically clever literary journal and wittily personal 2000 meta-memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius...
...with a photographic memory, who knows every prime number up to 7,057, but who can't understand what a hypothetical question is. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is funny, sad and totally convincing. But is it a mystery novel at all? Or a meta-mystery? Or something entirely new? That itself is a mystery--and worth investigating...
...some sense are the novel, and yet they exceed (run outside) it and are possessed by it all at once. To Steinbeck himself, in both life and literature, they were—and continue to be—more than just rodents, adorable yet problematic: they were tufted meta-metaphors of the act of writing itself. To understand more precisely the way(s) in which Steinbeck’s use of the rabbit-as-metaphor eclipses the rabbit qua rabbit, or even as reified rodent—furry symbol of proliferation—let us consider more closely Lennie?...