“How serious you expect us to take this?” says the Hog, “I mean, come on, you’re just the author messing around, trying to pull some kind of metafictional stunt.”. From Wordnik.com. [More Love for Jack Butler : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
The video is also oddly metafictional for some reason. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
Thus began my journey through Auster's metafictional novels. From Wordnik.com. [nomen omen] Reference
It's also one of the only purely metafictional SF novels I know. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-02-01] Reference
I don't care about your plan, it wasn't just a metafictional game. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Daniel Kehlmann's Fame: The Self in the Cyber Century (AUDIO)] Reference
None of which is to suggest that metafictional techniques can't work. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
Indeed, the outcry itself had all the earmarks of metafictional madness. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Thill: Truthiness and Consequences] Reference
Three of the stories have metafictional or metahistoriographical aspirations. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
But such metafictional shenanigans hardly affect the experience of reading "Jazz.". From Wordnik.com. [American Means Black, Too] Reference
It then suddenly becomes an underwater fantasy with a strong metafictional overtone. From Wordnik.com. [More stories : Bev Vincent] Reference
It got to a point where I thought the reviewer was playing her own metafictional game. From Wordnik.com. [Clueless reviewers, plus Girl in the Glass] Reference
"We have no interest whatsoever in being metafictional for the sake of it," Carey said. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
One of the things I liked most about Peter Jackson's LotR were the metafictional aspects. From Wordnik.com. [19th December 2005] Reference
Discussing Ian McEwan's Atonement, and starting to bring up some of the novel's metafictional elements. From Wordnik.com. [The pedagogical use-value of minor household disasters] Reference
And yours is vintage Rosenbaum, interesting and challenging and playing the craziest metafictional games!. From Wordnik.com. [Other Earths] Reference
It sounds almost like New Wave sf, although its purpose is almost certainly metafictional instead of sfnal. From Wordnik.com. [More Thoughts on Incandescence] 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
In a metafictional moment from the musical 1776, the playwright Peter Stone notes the pitfalls of this approach. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor] Reference
A book about people who make things up for a living — not consciously metafictional, but perhaps subconsciously. From Wordnik.com. [Dexter, Dickens and Drood : Bev Vincent] Reference
The constant interplay between star personae and screen characters encourages these kinds of metafictional musings. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
There are several different metafictional strands in Jackson's King Kong that work with varying degrees of success. From Wordnik.com. [19th December 2005] Reference
And E.L. Chen's comic strip "Why Aren't We Crying" encapsulates this issue's theme in a witty, metafictional manner. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Both novels take a strong metafictional interest in the extent to which genre shapes experience, rather than vice-versa. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
I do the metafictional sometimes, but I'm never going to approach that Austenworld story I remember from Sycamore Hill. From Wordnik.com. [Other Earths] Reference
From my anti-religion screed Waking Up is Hard to Do to my various love affairs with the metafictional madness of The Colbert. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Thill: Worst. Congress. Ever. Part Duh.] Reference
The other is a metafictional treatise on the nature of reality, of fiction, of the stores we tell and the ornaments we collect. From Wordnik.com. [Rich Johnston pursues Chase Variant this February | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference
She then puts some daffodils in the garden because ... well, because she can, as it's that kind of knowing metafictional whimsy. From Wordnik.com. [Digested read: Kehua! by Fay Weldon] Reference
Consequently, I needed to link the headings that remained, and movie titles seemed appropriate and added a little metafictional touch. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Words: Q & A with Noir Author Allan Guthrie] Reference
A paragraph that begins with fun metafictional play ends with an honest and, for me at least, affecting statement of yearning and loss. From Wordnik.com. [What I Did Wrong] Reference
More promotional stuff for The Red Tree, and it's actually rather fun, putting these peculiar artifacts and metafictional gewgaws together. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn of the Cycads] Reference
This 1953 metafictional masterpiece was so ahead of its time that even today, it still packs quite a punch and is uproariously funny for every second. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
The characters occasionally evince a metafictional awareness that they're in some sort of plot: There are too many coincidences in this thing already. From Wordnik.com. [Parallel] Reference
By turns a metafictional farce and a coming-of-middle-age story, The Bob Delusion is a novel about the stories we tell ourselves that make us who we are. From Wordnik.com. [The Bob Delusion] Reference
This amusingly metafictional passage sums up the narrative challenges facing both Dickens (when dealing with Collins) and Collins (when dealing with us). From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
The film attempts to blend the personal with the political, documentary with fiction, and locate all this within the metafictional framework of the film crew making the film. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
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