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metafiction

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met·a·fic·tion  (mt-fkshn)
n.
Fiction that deals, often playfully and self-referentially, with the writing of fiction or its conventions.
meta·fiction·al adj.
meta·fiction·ist n.
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Historiographic metafiction accepts the philosophically realist view of the past and then proceeds to confront it with an antirealist one that suggests that, however true that independence may be, nevertheless the past exists for us--now--only as traces on and in the present.
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