metafiction

 
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛtəfɪkʃ(ə)n/

noun

[mass noun]
  • fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by parodying or departing from novelistic conventions and traditional narrative techniques: the followers of Borges had retreated into airless metafiction [count noun]: David Copperfield is a metafiction in which Dickens shows the process of constructing a romance itself

Derivatives

metafictional

adjective