And as we are brought back out to the stranger and the listener, the I and the You, that sneaky genre twist on metafiction is still at work. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Pratt's "The Frozen One"] Reference
Now we always hear the term, when we're talking about literary fiction, metafiction, which is basically fiction about fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Carry-On Books To Take You Up, Up And Away] Reference
Then I'd make the "metafiction" gray not a circle but a rod that starts outside the fiction circle and penetrates each genre in turn, all the way to the center. From Wordnik.com. [SeeLight:] Reference
Pg. 12 gets nothing more than an "ah, metafiction"?. From Wordnik.com. [Week 43: Captain Maximum Meets Retopistics Uptown] Reference
This makes me wonder why metafiction is a new concept. From Wordnik.com. [absentia Diary Entry] Reference
We called it metafiction or “experimental” writing. From Wordnik.com. [On reading narrowly] Reference
What's the difference between fan fiction and metafiction?. From Wordnik.com. [March] Reference
Colbert employs metafiction for laughs and to get bridges in. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Thill: Bridge to Somewhere] Reference
The metafiction part of the show strikes me as a tiny bit twee. From Wordnik.com. [Fall Season So Far] Reference
A very good twist of the elements of metafiction, science fiction, and realism. From Wordnik.com. [Reader reviews of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon.] Reference
The Unwritten promises to be metafiction in the best way–a story about a story. From Wordnik.com. [Talk Nerdy to Me: Mike Carey on The Unwritten] Reference
Speaking of metafiction, I'm wondering if you've heard about the recent film, JCVD. From Wordnik.com. [Synecdoche, New York] Reference
In the '60s and' 70s, we called this metafiction; in 1759 we called it "Tristram Shandy.". From Wordnik.com. [The New New Thing: Same As It Ever Was] Reference
I don't know if "Bone Women" would be classed as metafiction, but I had the same reaction. From Wordnik.com. ["Bone Women" by Eliot Fintushel] Reference
Technically it is, I believe, what is called in some quarters a metafiction: a book about a book. From Wordnik.com. [Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind] Reference
I have plans to write a Christmas story for Metazen, an online journal specialising in metafiction. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)] Reference
Eighty years from now, it would be metafiction and self-writes, but I doubted they had either here. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
Enchanted is metafilm that must be the film version of metafiction, a Disney movie about Disney movies. From Wordnik.com. [Enchanted] Reference
But as much as Carey and Gross love to play with the mechanisms of metafiction, they're no literary panderers. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
I would say instead that the story is metafictional, but people have been writing metafiction for a long time. From Wordnik.com. [Ecstasy, Catalepsy, and Metafiction] Reference
As fiction--or metafiction, for fiction about Mormonism is by definition fiction about fiction--it can work too. From Wordnik.com. [HH Com 455] Reference
I prefer to think of metafiction as indeed existing outside the immediate requirements of "social understanding.". From Wordnik.com. [Postmodernism] Reference
Didn't John Gardner say somewhere in The Art of Fictionthat metafiction isn't really fiction at all, but lit crit?. From Wordnik.com. ["Bone Women" by Eliot Fintushel] Reference
If that's not proof that the mechanisms of metafiction are to be learned or ignored at the nation's peril, what is?. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Thill: Bridge to Somewhere] Reference
Not a bad trick: triple metafiction in a book one can buy in a grocery store, but not one easily topped, I suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
Trilogy by Shea and Anton, another satirical sci-fi meander through psychology, metafiction, and the big questions. From Wordnik.com. [LOST: The Answer To Life, The Universe, And Everything] Reference
Others have argued it was partly the book's nonlinear plot and metafiction structure that garnered such critical acclaim. From Wordnik.com. [From Comic Book to Literary Classic] Reference
I've long been a fan of metafiction --- those weird and witty books that make us aware of the artifice of story-creation. From Wordnik.com. [Monica Edinger: The Meta of Children's Fiction] Reference
In the post I had stated that metafiction was really the original movement in the contemporary arts to be called "postmodern.". From Wordnik.com. [Postmodernism] Reference
It's a compelling enough metafiction, but again I can't see what calling it an "interfiction" instead of a metafiction accomplishes. From Wordnik.com. [Experimental Fiction] Reference
With the background estabished, we can now examine Clarke's book as metafiction or, as Barry Malzberg puts it, "recursive science fiction.". From Wordnik.com. [Childhood's End] Reference
He tried metafiction ( "This is a very bad book you're writing," he wrote in "Breakfast of Champions"), graphic art and political polemics — all with notable success. From Wordnik.com. [Famous In Life, Noted In Passing] Reference
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