OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 38232

metafiction

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metaficción
A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.
In the previous chapter, I presented a heuristic explanation of the development of metafiction. In this chapter, I turn to some texts written before the 1980s to demonstrate that t…
Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot (1984) and Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor and Chatterton may be described as accomplished examples of historiographic metafiction, the kind of self-con…
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