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metafiction

metafiction  

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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 ...
self-reflexive

self-reflexive  

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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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