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 goal of this research and text
is to provide new and expanded reading tools that both explain the subjectivity and context of
fictocritical writings and simultaneously innovate on the form.
