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metafiction, n. Lit. Theory.|ˈmɛtəfɪkʃ(ə)n|
Also meta-fiction.
[f. meta- + fiction n.]
(A work of) fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions (esp. naturalism) and traditional narrative techniques.
1960Times Lit. Suppl. 17 June 381/3 All or Nothing..can be regarded as a metaphysical discourse, a mockery of rationalism, meta-fiction or space poetry. 1970W. H. Gass Fiction & Figures of Life i. i. 25 Many of the so-called antinovels are really metafictions. 1980B. W. Aldiss Life in West viii. 154 They are worthy of a serious study as metafiction or socio-economic artform. 1994Observer 18 Sept. (Rev. Suppl.) 19/1 Metafiction, fiction which self-consciously signals its status as fiction, is usually a pain... Austin Wright's Tony and Susan is a rarity—a metafiction that ingeniously comments on the experience of reading it, but which, as fiction, retains a feverish psychic grip.
Hence metaˈfictional, metaˈfictive adjs.
1982N.Y. Times 7 Nov. vii. 12/3 At this level of metafictional farce the book's interest depends less on storytelling than on Mr. Federman's ability to generate a continuous stream of rhetorical energy. 1988L. Hutcheon Canad. Postmodern vi. 130 The language of the novel makes the metafictive level overt: ‘He is the author of those maps but he has never known their ultimate affirmation, the consummation of the pact between traveler and traveled. He can only draw them.’ 1991Amer. Bk. Rev. Apr.–May 23/3 This would involve not only the use of metafictive techniques similar to those employed by male-oriented avant-gardes of the past, but also a feminist irony that would help us achieve critical distance from various cultural myths. 1993Rev. Eng. Stud. May 291 His account of spatiality in Walter Abish, and of the problematics of gender relations in Robert Coover's Spanking the Maid..is fully alive to the metafictional procedures worked out by these writers. |