metafiction
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- noun
- /ˌmɛtəˈfɪkʃən/
- Literature
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metaficción
- A popular example of metafiction is in the novel where the author includes commentary on the writing process within the story.
- historiographic metafiction
- postmodern metafiction
- radical metafiction
Examples
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"Two such concepts are metafiction in literature and its TV/film equivalent, 'breaking the fourth wall.'"
Blog text (20) -
Thus, two basic types of metafiction are distinguishable: the diegetic and the linguistic, each of which may be overt or covert.
Academic text (1993) -
With radical metafiction, the narrative audience is reduced to a very incomplete involvement.
Academic text (1995) -
In metafiction, there is no singular domain of facts, and hence no alternatives to it exist.
Academic text (2004) -
The content of the interview is a metafiction that navigates the cultural space between imagined signs and social truths.
Fiction book (2001) -
Like many of her contemporaries, Erdrich writes metafiction that is concerned as much with exploring the process of storytelling as with the story itself.
Academic text (1997) -
But in addition to this basic narration, Mulligan Stew provides a perfect example of metafiction that focuses on medium.
Academic text (1995) -
I do not suggest that the challenge to reference-world construction is exclusive to postmodern metafiction, but that the postmodern provides the most radical test case.
Academic text (1995) -
With radical metafiction like Mulligan Stew, the reader's construction of a reference world is actually restrained or blocked.
Academic text (1995) -
The very moment in The Poetics of Postmodernism that she introduces her characterization of postmodern narrative as historiographic metafiction illustrates the contradiction.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
A story that talks about other stories or how stories are told
How Self-Referential
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Metafiction combines meta- ('about' or 'beyond') and fiction ('a made-up story'), so it literally means a story that is 'about' a story. That's why metafiction draws attention to its own making and makes readers aware they are reading fiction.