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metafictionist
Variant of metafiction
noun
- fiction in which the mediating function of the author and the technical methods used in writing are self-consciously emphasized and in which the traditional concern with verisimilitude is minimized
- a work of such fiction
Related Forms:
- metafictional adjective
- metafictionist noun
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