metafictional

Examples

• All

• Postmodern novels are certainly not all metafictional in the same way or to the same degree.

  Academic text (1995)

• By exploring the interrelationships of metafictional narrative strategies, we illuminate the peculiar accomplishments and strengths of the postmodern text.

  Academic text (1995)

• If this is read as a metafictional moment, Mark is indeed "a totally invented asshole."

  Academic text (2009)

• Which means with all of the problems about how to close the book, the last episode of that metafictional level is the prologue.

• In fact, so many examples of metafictional devices in contemporary American comic strips exist that being comprehensive is nearly impossible.

  Academic text (2014)

• But what is the effect of multiple possibilities in a metafictional text whose meaning is created by metonymy?

  Academic text (1996)

• However, the primary function of metafictional devices in American comic strips seems to be parodical.

  Academic text (2014)

• However, the recent so-called postmodern decades have seen an increase in this metafictional mode in comics, as well as in other forms of art.

  Academic text (2014)

• Such a strategy expands the boundaries of the fictional world by importing a metafictional domain into that world.

  Academic text (1995)

• My purpose in this essay is to situate the works of Vargas Llosa within this context of metafictional writing.

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

M

metafictive

vsmetafictional

• Literature

9.9

A story that shows it is made up and points to how it is told

has identical meaning but uses an alternate adjective form

How Self-Aware

metafictional

• Literature

1 9.6

self-aware

10 5.2

conventional

175 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology