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metafiction
[ met-uh-fik-shuhn ]
noun
- fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of metafiction1
First recorded in 1975–80
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Example Sentences
As a TV tie-in and a Little Golden Book, it didn’t necessarily get the attention it deserves, according to Philip Nel, an English professor at Kansas State University who studies metafiction and postmodernism in children’s literature.
From Washington Post
The novel might be a metafiction in the style of John Barth, who has also in his eighties been influenced by cognitive science.
From The Daily Beast
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