ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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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