- 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
metafiction
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metafiction
noun
Fiction that deals, often playfully and self-referentially, with the writing of fiction or its conventions.
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- met′a·fic′tion·al
adjective
- met′a·fic′tion·ist
noun
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Noun
(usually uncountable, plural metafictions)
- a form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself
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