Surfiction
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Surfiction is a noun meaning A style of fiction that rejects realism and advertises its own fictional status, similar to metafiction, postmodernism or fabulation.
Meaning
A style of fiction that rejects realism and advertises its own fictional status, similar to metafiction, postmodernism or fabulation.
Example Sentences
...it was of a piece with a broader postwar codification and intensification of modernist reflexivity in the form of what came to be called "surfiction" or, more durably, "metafiction."
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include superrealist, subvertising, socrealism, antisensationalism, hypermodernism, postmodern.
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