Metafiction
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Metafiction is a noun meaning A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
Meaning
A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
Example Sentences
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 […]
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.
Word Forms
- metafictions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include historiographic, metareference, metatheatre, metastory, fictioneering, self-insertion.
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