metafictionaladj.

1974 W. J. Palmer Fiction J. Fowles 71 His whole novel will be a metafictional dramatization of the past, the present, and the future of the novel genre.

1975 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 35 478 The analogue for the case of fictional discourse would be those propositions of high generality upon which a given fictional work was based, and which we might be unwilling to surrender in the course of our meta-fictional discussions.

1982 N.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.

1993 Rev. 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.

1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Nov. 8/1 Slim volumes whose jauntily alliterative titles frankly confessed their metafictional jokiness.

1982 G. P. Firmat Idle Fictions i. ii. 62 Subsequent chapters will bear out that observations like these accurately reflect the metafictionality of many a vanguard text.

1988 L. Hutcheon Canad. Postmodern viii. 176 As the investigation of the nature and existence of lies, the murder mystery is inherently a marker of metafictionality.

1995 Publishers Weekly 6 Nov. 80 From diverse influences..Beaton took a sense of multiple identities, unstable gender and unstable metafictionality.