Metafictionist
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A writer of metafiction.
"As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass."
Example
More examples"As a maker of such writing, he descends from a long line traceable from Whitman and Melville to the modernists and Mackey’s idol, Baraka, to the metafictionists John Barth and William Gass."
Etymology
From metafiction + -ist.
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