Fictocritical Innovations : Ibidem : 9783838215433 : 3838215435 : 09 Dec 2021 : This book provides a new understanding of fictocriticism?a genre stemming from metafiction, écriture feminine, and postmodernism?via original creative and experimental writing devoted to the issue of the contemporary self, offering a reinvigoration of fictocriticism as a writing strategy. Cholewa explores questions surrounding what fictocriticism is and what it can do, and the essential paradox between theories surrounding fictocriticism suggesting how ?freeform' it is, yet how non-freeform and chameleonic it still seems to be due to its lack of theoretical ?rules'. Evaluating fictocriticism as both an art form and as a vehicle for higher theory and criticism, he offers and proposes further academic attention across a plethora of sociocultural, artistic, scientific, educational, political, and historical fields. Propelled by the work(s) of Roland Barthes, the ?godfather of fictocriticism', the ultimate go