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Genre of fiction about fiction
Metafiction is a form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing
Metafiction
Postmodern literary genre
Historiographic metafiction is a genre of writing that incorporates metafiction into historical fiction. The term was coined by Canadian literary theorist
Historiographic_metafiction
American voice actor (born 1962)
Walls Could Talk (1992) Selah – Music for the Quiet Time (2004–2005) Metafiction (2006) Christmas (2008) Selah II (2009) Revix (2010) – a remix album
Vic_Mignogna
20th-century literary form and movement
literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, and intertextuality, and which
Postmodern_literature
Separation of performers and audience
the fourth wall does not really exist, are a form of metatheatre or metafiction. A similar metareference occurs when actors in television or film make
Fourth_wall
Character who contrasts with another character of a narrative work
used as a foil to the main plot. This is especially true in the case of metafiction and the "story within a story" motif. A foil usually either differs dramatically
Foil_(narrative)
Fantasy book series by Steven Erikson
to metafiction. Alas, most metafiction struck me as too obvious, and I remembered wondering, way back then, if there was a way to make metafiction subtle
Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen
Romantic and sexual orientation
Lienhard, Alissa (May 2024). ""I'll Call it Platonic Magic": Queer Joy, Metafiction, and Aro-Ace Autofictional Selves in Alice Oseman's Loveless". In Progress:
Aromantic_asexual
2000 novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
Whalestoe Letters. The novel is written as a work of epistolary fiction and metafiction focusing on a fictional documentary film titled The Navidson Record,
House_of_Leaves
This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly
List_of_metafictional_works
2020 book by Benjamín Labatut
related fields, and explores the themes of sacrifice. A historiographical metafiction, numerous critics have either referred to the book as a novel or a collection
When We Cease to Understand the World
When_We_Cease_to_Understand_the_World
1969 novel by John Fowles
reputation concerns its postmodern literary qualities, with expressions of metafiction, historiography, metahistory, Marxist criticism, and feminism. Stylistically
The_French_Lieutenant's_Woman
Genre of fiction that is set in the past
contemporary issues in metaphorical ways. Historiographic metafiction combines historical fiction with metafiction. The term is closely associated with postmodern
Historical_fiction
1962 novel by Kurt Vonnegut
American spy. The story of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction) by Campbell himself, writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war
Mother_Night
2023 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
that followed. The novel can be categorized as both autofiction and metafiction. At the outset of their senior year of high school in 1981, Bret Easton
The_Shards
English novelist (born 1961)
the conventional, traditional genres. They usually contain elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy. Fforde was born in London on 11 January 1961, the
Jasper_Fforde
2014 novel by Ben Lerner
writer Ben Lerner. The novel belongs to the genres of autofiction and metafiction. The first-person narrator is a 33-year-old writer who lives in New York
10:04
Irish writer (1911–1966)
for their unconventional humour and as prominent examples of modernist metafiction. As a novelist, O'Brien was influenced by James Joyce. He was nonetheless
Flann_O'Brien
2007 novel by Clive Barker
Mister B. Gone is a short metafiction novel by Clive Barker, published in the United Kingdom and the United States in October 2007. A narrator attempts
Mister_B._Gone
1968 short story collection by John Barth
extremely self-conscious and self-reflexive, and are considered to exemplify metafiction. Though Barth's reputation rests mainly on his long novels, the stories
Lost_in_the_Funhouse
2004 novel by David Mitchell
the third novel by British author David Mitchell. The book combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary fiction and science fiction, with interconnected
Cloud_Atlas_(novel)
1962 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
attracted much attention, and it is often cited as an important example of metafiction, as well as an analog precursor to hypertext fiction, and a poioumenon
Pale_Fire
1611 play by John Cooke
Greene's Tu Quoque, also known as The City Gallant, is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Cooke. The play was a major popular success
Greene's_Tu_Quoque
1979 novel by William Maxwell
novel is based on fact and has been described as an "autobiographical metafiction". So Long, See You Tomorrow is set in Maxwell's hometown of Lincoln,
So Long, See You Tomorrow (novel)
So_Long,_See_You_Tomorrow_(novel)
1963 novel by Thomas Pynchon
Author Thomas Pynchon Language English Genre Postmodern literature, metafiction, satire, paranoid fiction Published March 18, 1963 (1963-03-18) (J. B
V.
1982 Italian giallo film by Dario Argento
Tenebrae (lit. '"darkness"', also known as Tenebre) is a 1982 Italian giallo film, written and directed by Dario Argento. The film stars Anthony Franciosa
Tenebrae_(film)
2022 novel by John Darnielle
implications that arise as a result of working in the genre. Darnielle uses metafiction to tell Devil House's story. The novel is set largely in the California
Devil_House
1990 Booker Prize winning novel by A. S. Byatt
categorised as historiographic metafiction, a genre that blends approaches from both historical fiction and metafiction. The novel follows two modern-day
Possession_(Byatt_novel)
1973 fantasy romance novel by William Goldman
William Goldman Language English Genre Fantasy, romance, adventure, metafiction Publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publication date 1973 Publication place
The_Princess_Bride_(novel)
1973 American novel by Kurt Vonnegut
as he enters the storyline. Breakfast of Champions makes heavy use of metafiction, with Vonnegut appearing as the narrator/creator of the work, explaining
Breakfast_of_Champions
2019 novel by Erin Morgenstern
unravel but requiring readers to have great tolerance for its use of metafiction. McReynolds noted the focus on philosophy and metatext over a conventional
The_Starless_Sea
American writer (1962–2008)
intentionally avoided tropes of postmodern art such as irony or forms of metafiction, saying in 1990 that they were "agents of a great despair and stasis"
David_Foster_Wallace
Old term for English fashionable society
ISBN 978-0-8032-3052-1. Sherwood, Kim (25 February 2021). "Pride and prejudice: metafiction and the value of historical romance in Georgette Heyer". In Rayner, Samantha
Ton_(society)
Self-reflexive mode of filmmaking
where production equipment and facilities are shown. It is analogous to metafiction in literature. Metacinema can be identified in art cinema of the 1960s
Metacinema
one of the first critics to work on metafiction and, in particular, for her influential 1984 study, Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious
Patricia_Waugh
2026 novel by Ann Patchett
2026-06-04. Cran, Rona (2026-06-02). "Whistler by Ann Patchett: a pacy metafiction where rich people are nice to each other". The Conversation. Retrieved
Whistler_(novel)
Comic book series by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
(2009–2019) Genre Alternate history Steampunk Horror Science fiction Metafiction Superhero Publication date 1999–2019 No. of issues 21, plus one original
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The_League_of_Extraordinary_Gentlemen
American literary critic and theorist (1929-2016)
literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction. Robert Scholes was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1929. After taking
Robert_Scholes
1989 collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace
reflect Wallace's concern with contemporary trends in fiction, including metafiction and the irony of postmodernism; and the cynical, amoral realism of "Brat
Girl_with_Curious_Hair
1995 novel by William H. Gass
edition cover Author William H. Gass Language English Genre Postmodern, Metafiction Publisher Knopf Publication date February 21, 1995 Publication place
The_Tunnel_(Gass_novel)
Comedy sketch by the British comedians Mitchell and Webb
under the Trump administration. Black and white hat symbolism in film Metafiction Freeman, Hadley (2018-06-30). "What clip best sums up the Trump era?
Are_We_the_Baddies?
2006 novel by Lance Olsen
published in 2006 by Fiction Collective Two. It is a work of historiographic metafiction. Nietzsche's Kisses is the narrative of Friedrich Nietzsche's last mad
Nietzsche's_Kisses
1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon
ISBN 9781108474467. Mason & Dixon, the very novel whose mode of historiographic metafiction seems to leave no doubt as to its postmodernist classification. Kirn
Mason_&_Dixon
Norwegian author (born 1952)
exploring their sense of wonder about the world. He often utilizes metafiction in his works and constructs stories within stories. His best known work
Jostein_Gaarder
2023 novel by R. F. Kuang
a satire of racial diversity in the publishing industry as well as a metafiction about social media, particularly Twitter. Although Yellowface is written
Yellowface_(novel)
Type of self reference
not limited to, William H. Gass's and Robert Scholes's exploration of metafiction, Victor Stoichita's examination of early modern meta-painting, and Lionel
Meta-reference
1975 novel by E. L. Doctorow
Ragtime is a 1975 historiographic metafiction novel by American author E. L. Doctorow. The novel mixes historical figures and fictional characters together
Ragtime_(novel)
(2006) is a collection of short stories by Japanese science fiction and metafiction writer Yasutaka Tsutsui, in English translation by Andrew Driver. Not
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno
Salmonella_Men_on_Planet_Porno
Element of story structure
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Denouement
Genre of primarily 20th-century novelistic fiction similar in style to magic realism
or trivial, horrible or ludicrous, tragic or comic. Historiographic metafiction Metahistorical romance Abrams, M. H. (2005). A Glossary of Literary Terms
Fabulation
Literary technique
Evil 7: Biohazard). The trope has been described as one of the tools of metafiction. It has been used due to public's growing interest in real history, including
Found_manuscript
2017 novel by Omar El Akkad
over the use of fossil fuels. The plot is told by using historiographic metafiction by the future historian Benjamin Chestnut about his aunt, Sarat Chestnut
American_War_(novel)
British literary award
Historiographic metafiction ENG 1991 Ben Okri The Famished Road Magical realism NGR 1992 Michael Ondaatje The English Patient Historiographic metafiction CAN SRI
Booker_Prize
2015 novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen
elements from a number of different novel genres: mystery, political, metafiction, dark comedic, historical, spy, and war. Thematically, it centres on
The_Sympathizer
Overarching narrative
Metanarrative may be related and is often used interchangeably with metafiction but there is a distinction. The latter foregrounds or discloses the fictionality
Metanarrative
Documentary film Hagiography Historical fiction Historical realism Historiographic metafiction Historical geographic information system Category Multimedia
Historical rankings of presidents of the United States
Historical_rankings_of_presidents_of_the_United_States
Style of literary fiction and art
that also could describe literary magic realism: "self-reflexiveness, metafiction, eclecticism, redundancy, multiplicity, discontinuity, intertextuality
Magical_realism
Main enemy of someone
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Archenemy
1938 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
recognition of his genius". It is possible to interpret the book as metafiction and imagine that the book was actually written by Fyodor later in his
The_Gift_(Nabokov_novel)
1971 novel by Robert C. O'Brien
[clarification needed] In a paper titled "The Critical Reader in Children's Metafiction", literary scholar Joe Sanders wrote that the book's emphasis on the
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_NIMH
2007 novel by Lance Olsen
published in 2007 by Shoemaker & Hoard (now Counterpoint). It is a work of metafiction. Anxious Pleasures explores intertextuality by appropriating and rewriting
Anxious_Pleasures
2010 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis Cover artist Chip Kidd Language English Genre Literary fiction Metafiction thriller Publisher Knopf Publication date June 15, 2010 Publication place
Imperial_Bedrooms
Short story by Carter Scholz
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is an epistolary science fiction/metafiction short story, by Carter Scholz. It was first published in 1984, in the anthology
The Nine Billion Names of God (Scholz)
The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God_(Scholz)
Japanese novelist (born 1933)
debut as a writer in 1970, Aramaki went forth with his published his "metafiction" novelettes in S-F Magazine from 1970 to around 1973. For details see
Yoshio_Aramaki
Novel by Sesshu Foster
speculative fiction, alternate history, postcolonial literature, and metafiction. The narrative deals with interconnected alternate timelines, one of
Atomik_Aztex
2006 novel by Thomas Pynchon
Like its predecessors, Against the Day is an example of historiographic metafiction or metahistorical romance. At 1,085 pages, it is the longest of Pynchon's
Against_the_Day
Literary element
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Story_structure
American social media personality
pirate fantasy book and television series from the 2000s; within this metafiction, Osborn claimed to have played Annie Wreyburn, the show's bisexual lead
Catieosaurus
American professional wrestler (born 1965)
far as departing from bashing his Deadman gimmick, instead taking to a metafiction form of bashing Calaway himself. The feud saw Styles solely referring
The_Undertaker
1965 novel by John Fowles
which become increasingly dark and serious. Considered an example of metafiction, it was the first novel written by Fowles but his third book to be published
The_Magus_(novel)
2025 novel by Brandon Hobson
protagonist, an unreliable narrator named Milton Muleborn. The novel employs a metafiction narrative by introducing a fictional character named Brandon H. who has
The_Devil_is_a_Southpaw
Form of fictionalized autobiography
own use of the term between autobiographical fiction, autobiographical metafiction, and autofiction, arguing that in autofiction there tends to be an emphasis
Autofiction
2004 novel by Roberto Bolaño
Translator Natasha Wimmer Language Spanish Genre Postmodernism surrealism metafiction Published 2004 (Editorial Anagrama, Barcelona) 11 November 2008 (US)
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Fictional being in a narrative
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Character_(arts)
2021 video game
hyperlinks and revision histories. It has been described as "wiki-based metafiction". Neurocracy has variously been described as an alternate reality game
Neurocracy
15th-century codex in an unknown script
[page needed] or work of fiction (e.g. science fantasy or mythopoeia, metafiction, and speculative fiction). The first confirmed owner was Georg Baresch
Voynich_manuscript
Literary genre
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Mystery_fiction
1981 novel by Salman Rushdie
Cover artist Bill Botten Language English Genre Magic realism, historiographic metafiction Publisher Jonathan Cape Publication date 1981 Publication place United
Midnight's_Children
1993 novel by Octavia E. Butler
ISBN 978-0312293031 Jablon, Madelyn. "Metafiction as Genre: Walter Mosley, Black Betty; Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower." Black Metafiction: Self Consciousness
Parable_of_the_Sower_(novel)
1990 short story collection by Tim O'Brien
Me Home. In The Things They Carried, O'Brien plays with the genre of metafiction; he writes using verisimilitude. His use of real place names and inclusion
The_Things_They_Carried
American novelist (1932–2024)
Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. He became a proponent of electronic literature and was a founder of
Robert_Coover
1987 novel by Jeannette Winterson
strategies for interpreting the historical—making the novel historiographic metafiction. The novel also explores themes like passion, constructions of gender
The_Passion_(novel)
Novel by Lance Olsen
Olsen, published in 2002 by Fiction Collective Two. It is a work of metafiction designed to trouble the unexamined assumptions of the memoir. The novel
Girl_Imagined_by_Chance
2016 video game
has generally been well received by critics, praising it for being a metafiction on the nature of video games. The game holds an aggregated score of 86/100
Pony_Island
2015 novel by Kent Haruf
realized that's what he's talking about." The novel also includes some metafiction, with Addie and Louis musing about a Colorado author who could write
Our_Souls_at_Night_(novel)
2002 novel by Nick Tosches
the Hand of Dante Author Nick Tosches Language English Genre Novel, Metafiction, Historical fiction Publisher Little, Brown (USA) Publication date September
In_the_Hand_of_Dante_(novel)
2019 novel by Salman Rushdie
Inspired by Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel Don Quixote, Quichotte is a metafiction that tells the story of an addled Indian-American man who travels across
Quichotte_(novel)
2016 novel by Christian Kracht
with many archaic words and expressions. As in all historiographic metafiction, there are historic characters acting out of time and character – one
The_Dead_(Kracht_novel)
Legendary 16th-century Scottish cannibal
Sawney Bain (Polygon, 1990) by Harry Tait was a "kind of historiographic metafiction retelling of the tale of Sawney Bean". In 1990, it was awarded the Saltire
Sawney_Bean
Term of literary criticism or of rhetorical technique
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Bathos
Stock character, notable for remaining composed in a comedic performance
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Straight_man
1962 book by Jorge Luis Borges
Fitts, L.A. Murillo Language English Genre Magical realism, fantasy, metafiction, surrealism Publisher New Directions Publication place United States
Labyrinths (short story collection)
Labyrinths_(short_story_collection)
Category of creative works based on stylistic and/or thematic criteria
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Genre
Genre of literature
Shandy, a fact not concealed in the text, making it an early example of metafiction. In the 1910s, artistic experimentation became a prominent force, and
Experimental_literature
1936 novel by Djuna Barnes
techniques such as its unusual form or narrative and can be considered metafiction, and it was praised by other modernist authors including T. S. Eliot
Nightwood
British comic book
techniques, fanzines, collage, cut-up technique, stream of consciousness, and metafiction, with very little regard or interest for conventional plot or committed
Tank_Girl
Angolan author and filmmaker
filmmaker, whose work, which over more than three decades spanned poetry, metafiction, and anthropology, focused on the Kuvale people of the southern Angola
Ruy_Duarte_de_Carvalho
Literary technique
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Foreshadowing
Literary genre
Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Series of works Storytelling
Psychological_fiction
Novel written as a series of letters
essays, fictitious footnotes, and letters spread over several layers of metafiction. Between Friends by Debbie Macomber (2001) tells the story of a lifelong
Epistolary_novel
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Girl/Female
Tamil
Keeritika | கிரீதீகா
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Jain, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Energy
Girl/Female
Australian, British, English, Greek
Sea Nymph; Daughter of Nereus; In Greek Mythology the Nereids were Mermaids and Deities of the Seas
Boy/Male
Muslim
Abundant. Copious.
Girl/Female
Spanish
Bitter; Woman from Magdala.
Surname or Lastname
English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name primarily from Brenton near Exminster, possibly named in Old English as Br̄ningtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Br̄ni’ (a personal name from Old English bryne ‘fire’, ‘flame’), or from any of the places mentioned at Brinton.
Boy/Male
Australian, Danish, German, Hebrew, Irish, Jewish, Polish, Swedish
God has Given; Prophet; Gift from God
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, German, Hebrew, Scottish
God of Plenty; Form of Elizabeth; Consecrated to God; My God is Abundance
Girl/Female
Hindu
Fragrance of the lotus
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