Meaning of metafiction | Babel Free
Definitions
A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
Equivalents
Català
metaficció
Deutsch
Metafiktion
Ελληνικά
μεταμυθοπλασία
Esperanto
metafikcio
Español
metaficción
Suomi
metafiktio
Français
métafiction
한국어
메타픽션
Polski
metafikcja
Português
metaficção
Русский
мѐтапро́за
Tiếng Việt
siêu hư cấu
Examples
“Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-conscious, heavily parodic and experimental historical […]”
“In the previous chapter, I presented a heuristic explanation of the development of metafiction. In this chapter, I turn to some texts written before the 1980s to demonstrate that the binary between realism and metafiction is not fixed.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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