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(literature) 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.
Use poioumenon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Poioumenon means (literature) A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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