metafiction

[ met-uh-fik-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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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