English Explanatory Dictionary

metafiction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.

Word forms

metafiction metafictions

Etymology

From meta- + fiction, coined in 1970 by William H. Gass

Related words

metafictional metafictive midfiction metatext intertextuality

Derived words

historiographic metafiction metafictionist
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