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ALL meanings of metafiction

met·a·fic·tion
M m
  • noun metafiction Fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions (especially naturalism) and traditional narrative techniques. 1
  • noun metafiction fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction. 1
  • noun metafiction fiction that acknowledges that it is fictional or artificial 0
  • noun metafiction fiction in which the mediating function of the author and the technical methods used in writing are self-consciously emphasized and in which the traditional concern with verisimilitude is minimized 0
  • noun metafiction a work of such fiction 0
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