metafictionist

Variant of metafiction

metafiction definition

meta·fic·tion (met′ə fik′s̸hən)

noun

  1. 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
  2. a work of such fiction

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