metafiction
/met-uh-fik-shuhn/US // ˈmɛt əˌfɪk ʃən //
元小说,元虚构,玄幻小说,元气小说
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : fiction that discusses, describes, or analyzes a work of fiction or the conventions of fiction.
Examples
As a TV tie-in and a Little Golden Book, it didn’t necessarily get the attention it deserves, according to Philip Nel, an English professor at Kansas State University who studies metafiction and postmodernism in children’s literature.
The novel might be a metafiction in the style of John Barth, who has also in his eighties been influenced by cognitive science.
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