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名詞

metafiction (usually uncountable, plural metafictions)

1. A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
   • 1999, Susana Onega Jaén, Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd, Camden House, →ISBN, page 1:

     Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-conscious, heavily parodic and experimental historical […]

   • 2010, Evan Mwangi, Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 65:

     In the previous chapter, I presented a heuristic explanation of the development of metafiction. In this chapter, I turn to some texts written before the 1980s to demonstrate that the binary between realism and metafiction is not fixed.

派生語

関連する語

• metafictional
• metafictive
• midfiction

参考

• metatext
• intertextuality

参照

Further reading

• metafiction on Wikipedia.Wikipedia