Poioumenon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Poioumenon is a noun meaning (literature) A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).
Meaning
(literature) A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- poioumena
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pseudomythology, mythopoetics, metapoem, fiction, poetization, metawriting.
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