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		Definition of metafiction in English: metafictionnoun ˈmɛtəfɪkʃ(ə)nˈmedəˌfikSH(ə)n mass nounFiction 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. 超小说(小说流派,作者有意通过拙劣模仿或背离传统写作手法 尤指自然主义和叙述技巧,强调人为作用和文学性)  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 Example sentencesExamples -  An investigation of transworld identity, historiographic metafiction, creative writing, postmodernism, and narrative voice.
 -  The second narrative technique, metafiction, works in opposition to point-of-view narration to align the reader with the author at the expense of the fictional subject.
 -  The content of the interview is a metafiction that navigates the cultural space between imagined signs and social truths.
 -  The delight He took in transposing Descartes into spoken French leaps off the page, and the result of his efforts is a hilarious novel of ideas and social manners, with metafiction present as well.
 -  Technically it is, I believe, what is called in some quarters a metafiction: a book about a book.
 -  The mixing of fantastic and realistic modes and the ragged edges he makes between invention and representation, has been generally described as magical realism or metafiction.
 -  With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event.
 -  In fact, each story becomes a metafiction: they are about the process of telling war stories as much as they are war stories themselves.
 -  It may be metafiction, a technique seen in all his works.
 -  It's got an interesting metafiction to the plot as well.
 -  Similarly, while metafiction in general allows, even demands, a new and more powerful role for the reader, it simultaneously demonstrates the continuing need for a consciously constructing authorial figure.
 -  Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America.
 -  This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm.
 -  Most metafiction tends towards narcissistic tail-chasing, but let's keep going.
 -  Their quest for ‘urban realism’ or neo-realism suggest that metafiction is not by definition incongruent with realism, and that referentiality remains a powerful preoccupation in many strands of postmodern fiction.
 -  In a New York Times Magazine article three years ago, Miller defined metafiction as ‘fiction that openly admits it is an artificial creation - as opposed to naturalism, in which art strives to represent real life.’
 -  However, what is often overlooked is metafiction's inherent and inevitable preoccupation with the creative power of the author.
 -  Second, it works as a metafilm and metafiction, employing sophisticated self-reflexive devices to tell a micro-historical story about film, film spectatorship and its relationship to modern Sicilian life.
 -  The latter story, a somewhat incomplete-seeming outline of a tale, is as much an early exercise in metafiction and ghost-storytelling technique as a coherent narrative.
 -  The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
 
 
 Derivativesadjective   Munro's original idea for the manuscript was a group of metafictional short stories involving two protagonists. Example sentencesExamples -  When we evaluate the characters and their actions, are our evaluations helped or hindered by the novel's literary devices and its metafictional play?
 -  Frank does not disappear to Florida, he evaporates in a plethora of textual self-consciousness and metafictional self-referentiality in which Ford writes Frank out of his own narrative.
 -  In fact, it is too obvious: the novel explicitly refers to its predecessor only to dismiss it in a kind of metafictional Declaration of Independence.
 -  This author, whose entire career is based on the questioning of historical givens and beliefs, invokes the metafictional trope of migrancy to invoke an absolute of root-lessness and hybridity.
 
 
 
    Definition of metafiction in US English: metafictionnounˈmedəˌfikSH(ə)n 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. 超小说(小说流派,作者有意通过拙劣模仿或背离传统写作手法 尤指自然主义和叙述技巧,强调人为作用和文学性)  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 Example sentencesExamples -  The delight He took in transposing Descartes into spoken French leaps off the page, and the result of his efforts is a hilarious novel of ideas and social manners, with metafiction present as well.
 -  It's got an interesting metafiction to the plot as well.
 -  Second, it works as a metafilm and metafiction, employing sophisticated self-reflexive devices to tell a micro-historical story about film, film spectatorship and its relationship to modern Sicilian life.
 -  This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm.
 -  The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
 -  Most metafiction tends towards narcissistic tail-chasing, but let's keep going.
 -  Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America.
 -  With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event.
 -  It may be metafiction, a technique seen in all his works.
 -  In fact, each story becomes a metafiction: they are about the process of telling war stories as much as they are war stories themselves.
 -  Similarly, while metafiction in general allows, even demands, a new and more powerful role for the reader, it simultaneously demonstrates the continuing need for a consciously constructing authorial figure.
 -  Their quest for ‘urban realism’ or neo-realism suggest that metafiction is not by definition incongruent with realism, and that referentiality remains a powerful preoccupation in many strands of postmodern fiction.
 -  The mixing of fantastic and realistic modes and the ragged edges he makes between invention and representation, has been generally described as magical realism or metafiction.
 -  In a New York Times Magazine article three years ago, Miller defined metafiction as ‘fiction that openly admits it is an artificial creation - as opposed to naturalism, in which art strives to represent real life.’
 -  However, what is often overlooked is metafiction's inherent and inevitable preoccupation with the creative power of the author.
 -  An investigation of transworld identity, historiographic metafiction, creative writing, postmodernism, and narrative voice.
 -  The content of the interview is a metafiction that navigates the cultural space between imagined signs and social truths.
 -  Technically it is, I believe, what is called in some quarters a metafiction: a book about a book.
 -  The latter story, a somewhat incomplete-seeming outline of a tale, is as much an early exercise in metafiction and ghost-storytelling technique as a coherent narrative.
 -  The second narrative technique, metafiction, works in opposition to point-of-view narration to align the reader with the author at the expense of the fictional subject.
 
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