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poioumenon

poioumenon noun: a specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).

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

Forms of poioumenon

pluralpoioumena

Origin of poioumenon

Ancient Greek ποιούμενον (poioúmenon), "product".

Questions about poioumenon

What does poioumenon mean?
Poioumenon means a specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).
What part of speech is poioumenon?
Poioumenon is a noun.
What is the plural of poioumenon?
The plural of poioumenon is poioumena.

Words near poioumenon in the dictionary

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

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