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metafiction
A kind of fiction that openly draws attention to its own fictional status. Sterne's Tristram Shandy is the classic English example. Postmodernist novelists and storytellers tales often resort to ...
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The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
Term from heraldry, meaning the reduced reproduction of an image within itself. It was popularized by Gide to refer to
self-reflexive
A term applied to literary works that openly reflect upon their own processes of artful composition. Such self‐referentiality is frequently found in modern works of fiction that repeatedly refer to ...
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