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Fourth wall

The metaphor of the fourth wall has been applied by literary critic David Barnett to The Harvard Lampoons parody of The Lord of the Rings when a character breaks the conventions of storytelling by referring to the text itself.



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Richard David Barnett

Richard David Barnett CBE FBA (23 January 1909 – 29 July 1986) was the Keeper, Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities of the British Museum.