metafiction
metafiction noun: a form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
Noun
metafiction (usually uncountable, plural metafictions)
- A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
- 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 […]1999, Susana Onega Jaén, Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd, Camden House, →ISBN, page 1
- 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.2010, Evan Mwangi, Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 65
metafiction meaning in Vietnamese
metafiction in Vietnamese
- form of self-referential literature
- siêu hư cấu
Forms of metafiction
| plural | metafictions |
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Origin of metafiction
From meta- + fiction, coined in 1970 by William H. Gass
Words formed from metafiction
Questions about metafiction
- What does metafiction mean?
- Metafiction means a form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
- What is metafiction in Vietnamese?
- Metafiction in Vietnamese is siêu hư cấu. See Metafiction meaning in Vietnamese.
- What part of speech is metafiction?
- Metafiction is a noun.
- What is the plural of metafiction?
- The plural of metafiction is metafictions.
Words near metafiction in the dictionary
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