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metafiction

Syllabification: (met·a·fic·tion)
Pronunciation: /ˈmetəˌfikSHən/
Definition of metafiction

noun

  • fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions (especially naturalism) and traditional narrative techniques.

Derivatives

metafictional

Pronunciation: /ˌmetəˈfikSHənl/
adjective

metafiction in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of metafiction in the British & World English dictionary