METAFICTIONS | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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Word: Metafiction

Speech Type: Noun

Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling: ˈmɛtəˌfɪkʃn
Dialects: British English
Definition:

fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions and traditional narrative techniques

Short Definition:

fiction in which author self-consciously alludes to artificiality or literariness of work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions

Examples:
  • the followers of Borges had retreated into airless metafiction
  • David Copperfield is a metafiction in which Dickens shows the process of constructing a romance itself

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