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poioumena

poioumena is the plural of poioumenon.

Meaning of poioumenon

Noun

poioumenon (plural poioumena)

  1. A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).
    • 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.1991, Alastair Fowler, A History of English Literature

Questions about poioumena

What is poioumena the plural of?
Poioumena is the plural of poioumenon.

Words near poioumena in the dictionary

  1. pointy head
  2. pointy heads
  3. Poinu
  4. poinyard
  5. poinyards
  6. poioumena
  7. poioumenon
  8. Poipet
  9. Poirei
  10. Poireiton
  11. Poirier

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