Pseudofiction
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pseudofiction is a noun meaning Writing that resembles fiction but lacks key attributes of fiction; for example, an autobiographical novel.
Meaning
Writing that resembles fiction but lacks key attributes of fiction; for example, an autobiographical novel.
Example Sentences
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 pathos as residue.
Word Forms
- pseudofictions
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fiction, pseudolanguage, pseudism, pseudoclassic, pseudohistory, pseudojournalism.
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