What does metatextual mean?
Metatextual means Constituting self-referential text (text about the text); for example, as mentioned earlier herein..
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Constituting self-referential text (text about the text); for example, as mentioned earlier herein..
Still, the meta-textual cleverness of the whole affair takes a little while to settle into, partly because the early storylines feel so routine.
The metatextual tweak to the then-tired franchise was a creative shot in the arm, and though it didn’t set the box office on fire, it set the stage for Scream’s brilliant deconstruction of the genre.
Use metatextual when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Metatextual means Constituting self-referential text (text about the text); for example, as mentioned earlier herein..
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Still, the meta-textual cleverness of the whole affair takes a little while to settle into, partly because the early storylines feel so routine.
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