pseudofiction
pseudofiction noun: writing that resembles fiction but lacks key attributes of fiction; for example, an autobiographical novel.
Noun
pseudofiction (countable and uncountable, plural pseudofictions)
- Writing that resembles fiction but lacks key attributes of fiction; for example, an autobiographical novel
- The film complicates matters by casting Christine Hebert (a sometime underground filmmaker in her own right) as Pizzorno, with Moullet playing himself, thereby juxtaposing pseudofiction with pseudofact in a way that undermines the rhetorical strategies of both, leaving only a sweet, tragicomic...1988 February 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Form Counts”, in Chicago Reader
Forms of pseudofiction
| plural | pseudofictions |
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Origin of pseudofiction
From pseudo- + fiction.
Questions about pseudofiction
- What does pseudofiction mean?
- Pseudofiction means writing that resembles fiction but lacks key attributes of fiction; for example, an autobiographical novel.
- What part of speech is pseudofiction?
- Pseudofiction is a noun.
- What is the plural of pseudofiction?
- The plural of pseudofiction is pseudofictions.
Words near pseudofiction in the dictionary
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