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单词 metafiction
释义

metafiction

/ˈmɛtəfɪkʃ(ə)n /
noun [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...
  • 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 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.
  • It may be metafiction, a technique seen in all his works.

Derivatives

metafictional

adjective ...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • When we evaluate the characters and their actions, are our evaluations helped or hindered by the novel's literary devices and its metafictional play?
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