Definition of Metafiction

1. Noun. a form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Metafiction

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Metafiction

metadiscussion
metadiscussions
metadrama
metadramas
metadramatic
metadynamics
metadysentery
metaescaline
metaethical
metaethics
metaevolution
metaevolutions
metafacial angle
metafectene
metafemale
metafiction (current term)
metafictional
metafictionally
metafictionist
metafictionists
metafictions
metafile
metafiles
metafilm
metafilms
metafunction
metafunctions
metagalactic
metagalaxies
metagalaxy

Literary usage of Metafiction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"... the adventure chronotope in popular culture, the semiotic worlds of postmodernist metafiction and the everyday world of postmodernist (auto)biographers. ..."

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