historiographic metafiction

Definitions

A type of postmodern historical fiction employing metafiction.

uncountable, usually

Examples

“This assumption leads us to historiographic metafiction, a style of writing that emerged during the postmodern era. If there is fiction in scholarly historiography, where is the difference between that and a novel that deals with history?”

“Although works classified as “historiographic metafiction” have⟳ been seen by numerous critics as the continuation into the eighties of the work⟳ of Pynchon, Coover, Barth, and Gass, this application of the concept turns on metafiction's identification with its anti-mimetic, counter-realist self-descriptions. […] McHale identifies three devices in historiographic metafiction: —apocryphal history, creative anachronism, and historical fantasy […]”

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