poioumenon
English
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Etymology
[edit]Ancient Greek ποιούμενον (poioúmenon), "product".
Noun
[edit]poioumenon (plural poioumena)
- (literature) A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).
- 1991, Alastair Fowler, A History of English Literature:
- The poioumenon has a long prehistory (hardly a tradition), going back through Beckett's trilogy and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus to Sterne's Tristram Shandy; but it is preeminently a postmodernist genre.