metafiction
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of metafiction
First recorded in 1975–80
Example Sentences
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As metafiction goes, it could hardly be more poignant, though poignancy is not the author’s style.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
“Oreo” is satire and metafiction, a picaresque and a bildungsroman.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023
It’s a high-wire act of metafiction, and it works.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2022
It's clear that Horowitz enjoys metafiction judging from his writing about writers and centering a murder mystery in the publishing world.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2022
By and large, though, in these two books Mina has mastered the intricacies of metafiction, not to mention edge-of-your-seat storytelling.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2022
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