Metafiction

Synonyms for "metafiction"

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Translations

15 translations across 15 languages.

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Catalan

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  • metaficció noun (form of self-referential literature)

Czech

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  • metafikce noun (form of self-referential literature)

Esperanto

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  • metafikcio noun (form of self-referential literature)

Finnish

1 entries
  • metafiktio noun (form of self-referential literature)

French

1 entries
  • métafiction noun (form of self-referential literature)

German

1 entries
  • Metafiktion noun (form of self-referential literature)

Greek

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  • μεταμυθοπλασία noun (form of self-referential literature)

Korean

1 entries
  • 메타픽션 noun (form of self-referential literature)

Polish

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  • metafikcja noun (form of self-referential literature)

Portuguese

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  • metaficção noun (form of self-referential literature)

Romanian

1 entries
  • metaficțiune noun (form of self-referential literature)

Russian

1 entries
  • мѐтапро́за noun (form of self-referential literature)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • metafikcija noun (form of self-referential literature)

Spanish

1 entries
  • metaficción noun (form of self-referential literature)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • siêu hư cấu noun (form of self-referential literature)

Sample sentences

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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 […]

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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.

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