Ronald B. Richardson https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Las Meninas: A Metapainting Abstract Paintings are Metapaintings 111 Most Important Works of Metafiction Top Twenty One Metafictional Works: The Story That Swallows Its Tale Into the Abyss: The Mise en Abyme, the Art Work Within the Art Work Don Quixote: The Origin of Realism and Metafiction Hunters Reading Signs: The Origin of Writing? A Rain of Ink: Metafiction in Charles Dicken’s Bleak House Apples in a Basket: Is Absolute Truth Absolutely True? What Does “Meta” Mean? The Power of Stories to Change the World: Another Arabian Night Ronald B. Richardson, aka Ronosaurus Rex Protomysteries: Precursors of Detective Fiction If Not a Pipe, Then What?: Magritte’s Meta-Painting The Treachery of Images Acting Stereotypes Out: Herman Melville’s Benito Cereno and Charles Dicken’s Our Mutual Friend Metamusic and Metasongs: Music about Music, Songs about Songs The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On: Paper, Ink, Letter and Word Other Meta Topics on Language, Thought, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves The Burden of Life: Tim O’Brien’s Metafictional Classic “The Things They Carried” A Meta-Island or a Meta-Lake? A Mosquito Hawk or a Sacaojos (Sucks-out-eyes)? Names Influence Perception and Behavior A Change of Names, a Change of Destiny Trapped in Narrative Language Extending the Linguistic “Concept” to Include “Narrative Function” Experiencing “The Waste Land”: A Four-Day Unit for Teaching T. S. Eliot’s Masterpiece What “The Waste Land” Expresses: An Experiential Approach to T. S. Eliot’s Poem To Understand, We Must Produce Narrative Do Animals Tell Stories?: The Narrative Abilities of Animals The Representation of Amusement Parks in Amusement Parks: Meta-Attractions at Disney Parks Narrative Madness: The Influence of Narrative Language on Perception and Behavior Metamucil: Making Meta-Shit Happen Repainting the Tenderloin: Mona Caron’s Meta-Mural “Windows into the Tenderloin” A Meta-Mural on Clarion Alley: Lo Llevas por Dentro by Jet Martinez The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City: Diego Rivera’s Meta-Mural The Lack of Blank Spaces: Cage’s 4’33” and Rauschenberg’s “White Paintings” Halfway: A Meta-Painting by Tofu St. John Narrative Madness: What is Narrative and How Do Our Conceptions of It Warp Our Understanding? The Mirror in the Text: The Mirror in the Text What is Metafiction? Why Metafiction Matters David Hockney’s Metaphotocollage A Book Within a Book in The Counterfeiters: The Mise en Abyme Progressive Digressions in Tristram Shandy The Early History of Metafiction The Decameron With and Without a Frame Purpose: To Rehabilitate Reality through Metafiction Narrative Madness: Humans are the Stories They Tell about Themselves Major Themes of Metafiction An All-Encompassing Definition of Reality: The Conclusion to Narrative Madness The Myth of Myths: Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Myth Interrupted”