Definition of metafiction in English:

metafiction

noun ˈmɛtəfɪkʃ(ə)nˈmedəˌfikSH(ə)n

mass noun

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.
the followers of Borges had retreated into airless metafiction
count noun David Copperfield is a metafiction in which Dickens shows the process of constructing a romance itself
Example sentencesExamples
- An investigation of transworld identity, historiographic metafiction, creative writing, postmodernism, and narrative voice.
- The second narrative technique, metafiction, works in opposition to point-of-view narration to align the reader with the author at the expense of the fictional subject.
- The content of the interview is a metafiction that navigates the cultural space between imagined signs and social truths.
- The delight He took in transposing Descartes into spoken French leaps off the page, and the result of his efforts is a hilarious novel of ideas and social manners, with metafiction present as well.
- Technically it is, I believe, what is called in some quarters a metafiction: a book about a book.
- The mixing of fantastic and realistic modes and the ragged edges he makes between invention and representation, has been generally described as magical realism or metafiction.
- With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event.
- In fact, each story becomes a metafiction: they are about the process of telling war stories as much as they are war stories themselves.
- It may be metafiction, a technique seen in all his works.
- It's got an interesting metafiction to the plot as well.
- Similarly, while metafiction in general allows, even demands, a new and more powerful role for the reader, it simultaneously demonstrates the continuing need for a consciously constructing authorial figure.
- Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America.
- This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm.
- Most metafiction tends towards narcissistic tail-chasing, but let's keep going.
- Their quest for ‘urban realism’ or neo-realism suggest that metafiction is not by definition incongruent with realism, and that referentiality remains a powerful preoccupation in many strands of postmodern fiction.
- In a New York Times Magazine article three years ago, Miller defined metafiction as ‘fiction that openly admits it is an artificial creation - as opposed to naturalism, in which art strives to represent real life.’
- However, what is often overlooked is metafiction's inherent and inevitable preoccupation with the creative power of the author.
- Second, it works as a metafilm and metafiction, employing sophisticated self-reflexive devices to tell a micro-historical story about film, film spectatorship and its relationship to modern Sicilian life.
- The latter story, a somewhat incomplete-seeming outline of a tale, is as much an early exercise in metafiction and ghost-storytelling technique as a coherent narrative.
- The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.

Derivatives

metafictional

adjective

Munro's original idea for the manuscript was a group of metafictional short stories involving two protagonists.
Example sentencesExamples
- When we evaluate the characters and their actions, are our evaluations helped or hindered by the novel's literary devices and its metafictional play?
- Frank does not disappear to Florida, he evaporates in a plethora of textual self-consciousness and metafictional self-referentiality in which Ford writes Frank out of his own narrative.
- In fact, it is too obvious: the novel explicitly refers to its predecessor only to dismiss it in a kind of metafictional Declaration of Independence.
- This author, whose entire career is based on the questioning of historical givens and beliefs, invokes the metafictional trope of migrancy to invoke an absolute of root-lessness and hybridity.

Definition of metafiction in US English:

metafiction

nounˈmedəˌfikSH(ə)n

Fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions (especially naturalism) and traditional narrative techniques.
the followers of Borges had retreated into airless metafiction
count noun David Copperfield is a metafiction in which Dickens shows the process of constructing a romance itself
Example sentencesExamples
- The delight He took in transposing Descartes into spoken French leaps off the page, and the result of his efforts is a hilarious novel of ideas and social manners, with metafiction present as well.
- It's got an interesting metafiction to the plot as well.
- Second, it works as a metafilm and metafiction, employing sophisticated self-reflexive devices to tell a micro-historical story about film, film spectatorship and its relationship to modern Sicilian life.
- This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm.
- The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
- Most metafiction tends towards narcissistic tail-chasing, but let's keep going.
- Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America.
- With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event.
- It may be metafiction, a technique seen in all his works.
- In fact, each story becomes a metafiction: they are about the process of telling war stories as much as they are war stories themselves.
- Similarly, while metafiction in general allows, even demands, a new and more powerful role for the reader, it simultaneously demonstrates the continuing need for a consciously constructing authorial figure.
- Their quest for ‘urban realism’ or neo-realism suggest that metafiction is not by definition incongruent with realism, and that referentiality remains a powerful preoccupation in many strands of postmodern fiction.
- The mixing of fantastic and realistic modes and the ragged edges he makes between invention and representation, has been generally described as magical realism or metafiction.
- In a New York Times Magazine article three years ago, Miller defined metafiction as ‘fiction that openly admits it is an artificial creation - as opposed to naturalism, in which art strives to represent real life.’
- However, what is often overlooked is metafiction's inherent and inevitable preoccupation with the creative power of the author.
- An investigation of transworld identity, historiographic metafiction, creative writing, postmodernism, and narrative voice.
- The content of the interview is a metafiction that navigates the cultural space between imagined signs and social truths.
- Technically it is, I believe, what is called in some quarters a metafiction: a book about a book.
- The latter story, a somewhat incomplete-seeming outline of a tale, is as much an early exercise in metafiction and ghost-storytelling technique as a coherent narrative.
- The second narrative technique, metafiction, works in opposition to point-of-view narration to align the reader with the author at the expense of the fictional subject.

单词	metafiction
释义	Definition of metafiction in English: metafiction noun ˈmɛtəfɪkʃ(ə)nˈmedəˌfikSH(ə)n mass noun 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. the followers of Borges had retreated into airless metafiction count noun David Copperfield is a metafiction in which Dickens shows the process of constructing a romance itself Example sentencesExamples An investigation of transworld identity, historiographic metafiction, creative writing, postmodernism, and narrative voice. The second narrative technique, metafiction, works in opposition to point-of-view narration to align the reader with the author at the expense of the fictional subject. The content of the interview is a metafiction that navigates the cultural space between imagined signs and social truths. The delight He took in transposing Descartes into spoken French leaps off the page, and the result of his efforts is a hilarious novel of ideas and social manners, with metafiction present as well. Technically it is, I believe, what is called in some quarters a metafiction: a book about a book. The mixing of fantastic and realistic modes and the ragged edges he makes between invention and representation, has been generally described as magical realism or metafiction. With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event. In fact, each story becomes a metafiction: they are about the process of telling war stories as much as they are war stories themselves. It may be metafiction, a technique seen in all his works. It's got an interesting metafiction to the plot as well. Similarly, while metafiction in general allows, even demands, a new and more powerful role for the reader, it simultaneously demonstrates the continuing need for a consciously constructing authorial figure. Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America. This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm. Most metafiction tends towards narcissistic tail-chasing, but let's keep going. Their quest for ‘urban realism’ or neo-realism suggest that metafiction is not by definition incongruent with realism, and that referentiality remains a powerful preoccupation in many strands of postmodern fiction. In a New York Times Magazine article three years ago, Miller defined metafiction as ‘fiction that openly admits it is an artificial creation - as opposed to naturalism, in which art strives to represent real life.’ However, what is often overlooked is metafiction's inherent and inevitable preoccupation with the creative power of the author. Second, it works as a metafilm and metafiction, employing sophisticated self-reflexive devices to tell a micro-historical story about film, film spectatorship and its relationship to modern Sicilian life. The latter story, a somewhat incomplete-seeming outline of a tale, is as much an early exercise in metafiction and ghost-storytelling technique as a coherent narrative. The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction. Derivatives metafictional adjective Munro's original idea for the manuscript was a group of metafictional short stories involving two protagonists. Example sentencesExamples When we evaluate the characters and their actions, are our evaluations helped or hindered by the novel's literary devices and its metafictional play? Frank does not disappear to Florida, he evaporates in a plethora of textual self-consciousness and metafictional self-referentiality in which Ford writes Frank out of his own narrative. In fact, it is too obvious: the novel explicitly refers to its predecessor only to dismiss it in a kind of metafictional Declaration of Independence. This author, whose entire career is based on the questioning of historical givens and beliefs, invokes the metafictional trope of migrancy to invoke an absolute of root-lessness and hybridity. Definition of metafiction in US English: metafiction nounˈmedəˌfikSH(ə)n Fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions (especially naturalism) and traditional narrative techniques. the followers of Borges had retreated into airless metafiction count noun David Copperfield is a metafiction in which Dickens shows the process of constructing a romance itself Example sentencesExamples The delight He took in transposing Descartes into spoken French leaps off the page, and the result of his efforts is a hilarious novel of ideas and social manners, with metafiction present as well. It's got an interesting metafiction to the plot as well. Second, it works as a metafilm and metafiction, employing sophisticated self-reflexive devices to tell a micro-historical story about film, film spectatorship and its relationship to modern Sicilian life. This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm. The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction. Most metafiction tends towards narcissistic tail-chasing, but let's keep going. Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America. With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event. It may be metafiction, a technique seen in all his works. In fact, each story becomes a metafiction: they are about the process of telling war stories as much as they are war stories themselves. Similarly, while metafiction in general allows, even demands, a new and more powerful role for the reader, it simultaneously demonstrates the continuing need for a consciously constructing authorial figure. Their quest for ‘urban realism’ or neo-realism suggest that metafiction is not by definition incongruent with realism, and that referentiality remains a powerful preoccupation in many strands of postmodern fiction. The mixing of fantastic and realistic modes and the ragged edges he makes between invention and representation, has been generally described as magical realism or metafiction. In a New York Times Magazine article three years ago, Miller defined metafiction as ‘fiction that openly admits it is an artificial creation - as opposed to naturalism, in which art strives to represent real life.’ However, what is often overlooked is metafiction's inherent and inevitable preoccupation with the creative power of the author. An investigation of transworld identity, historiographic metafiction, creative writing, postmodernism, and narrative voice. The content of the interview is a metafiction that navigates the cultural space between imagined signs and social truths. Technically it is, I believe, what is called in some quarters a metafiction: a book about a book. The latter story, a somewhat incomplete-seeming outline of a tale, is as much an early exercise in metafiction and ghost-storytelling technique as a coherent narrative. The second narrative technique, metafiction, works in opposition to point-of-view narration to align the reader with the author at the expense of the fictional subject.
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