metafictiveadj.
/ˌmɛtəˈfɪktɪv/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəˈfɪktɪv/ Literary Theory.
Concerned with metafiction; that is, or is characteristic of, metafiction. Cf. metafictional adj.
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1981 ELH 48 831 This seems to be..what happened when Conrad widened his frame from Razumov to Under Western Eyes and so created a fiction about a fiction. It is also what happens perforce to a reader who recognizes the metafictive circuit in the novel.
1991 Amer. Bk. Rev. Apr. 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.
1998 Independent (Electronic ed.) 3 June He was one of the first writers in America to champion an iconoclastic ‘postmodern’ or ‘metafictive’ spirit in fiction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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