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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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This is in the midst of a hilarious essay based on voluntary exposure to the academy-bound American metafictionists, who provide "the sense of suffocation one experiences reading so much bad writing.
The last republican by Kauffman, Bill / The American Conservative
Which is why it's so painful to watch David Foster Wallace's awkward attempt to transmogrify from arch metafictionist to champion of Meaning.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by Hultkrans, Andrew / Artforum International
 
 
 
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