metafiction
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
meta- + fiction, coined in 1970 by William H. Gass[1]
Noun[edit]
metafiction (usually uncountable, plural metafictions)
- A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
- 1999, Susana Onega Jaén, Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd, Camden House, →ISBN, page 1:
- Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-conscious, heavily parodic and experimental historical […]
- 2010, Evan Mwangi, Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 65:
- In the previous chapter, I presented a heuristic explanation of the development of metafiction. In this chapter, I turn to some texts written before the 1980s to demonstrate that the binary between realism and metafiction is not fixed.
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Translations[edit]
form of self-referential literature
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Further reading[edit]
- metafiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia