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Meaning of poioumenon | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).

Examples

“The poioumenon has a long prehistory (hardly a tradition), going back through Beckett's trilogy and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus to Sterne's Tristram Shandy; but it is preeminently a postmodernist genre.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

Poipet Poirei Poireiton Poirier Poirot Poirrier