Meaning of fictionality | Babel Free

Definitions

State or quality of being fictional.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“To be sure the anticipatory proleptics of the "historical survey in future-form" associated with pseudonymity rests upon the literary fiction of the pre-historicality of the revelation of these secrets; but this fictionality is intended to emphasize precisely by means of its esoteric quality that God will allow⟳ the elect⟳ righteous (cf. I Enoch 1:1) and wise persons (cf. I Enoch 100:6, 104:12) of the present⟳ day to participate⟳ already in his revelation that has proceeded from the mouths of the righteous and wise ones of pre-history, through the "literary" medium of the book.”

“But, of course, characters in postmodernist narrative fictions, too, can become⟳ aware of their own⟳ fictionality—characters such as Julia the policeman's wife, or the magazine-reader in Burroughs' Exterminator!, or the fictional author in Barth's "Life-Story."”

“As I discuss⟳ later, as well, authors within the realistic mode often encode their texts with markers of not only a self-conscious fictionality but also an irony regarding their projects that is, I would maintain⟳, meant to be discovered.”

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