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usually uncountable, plural metafictions
A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself. quotations examples
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 […]
1999, Susana Onega Jaén, Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd, Camden House, page 1
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.
2010, Evan Mwangi, Africa Writes Back to Self: Metafiction, Gender, Sexuality, SUNY Press, page 65