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Metafiction

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 a fictional work. Metafiction is self-conscious about language, literary form, and storytelling, and works of metafiction directly or indirectly draw attention to their status as artifacts.…

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Metafiction

Nodes70
Edges69
Triples116
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028571
Components1

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Metafiction

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related to Further reading · 80
Metafiction → Adaptation, Alfred, Andrew, Artifice, Attempts, Barth, Barthelme, Comparative Cultural Studies, Comparative Reassessment, Contemporary Arts, Coonrod Martínez, Culture, Currie, Dean, Discourse, Earl, Elizabeth, Explanation, Fabulation, Faces
related to history · 12
Metafiction → Fiction, Figures, Gass, Gass's, Life, Patricia Waugh, Robert Scholes, The, Theoretical, These, This, William
related to Explicit and implicit · 5
Metafiction → An, Explicit, Implicit, It, Rather
see also · 4
Metafiction → Alienation Effect, Effekt, Fourth, List
is a · 3
Metafiction → form of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work, instrumental part, Stanley Parable
related to Direct and indirect · 3
Metafiction → Contrarily, Direct, Since
related to Critical and non-critical · 2
Metafiction → Critical, Non-critical
related to Forms · 2
Metafiction → According, Werner Wolf
related to Media-centered and truth- or fiction-centered · 2
Metafiction → The, While

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fiction works text metafictional life forms reading became form literature medium example literary frequently william way language use robert gass

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Metafictionis aform of fiction that emphasizes its own narrative structure in a way that inherently reminds the audience that they are reading or viewing a fictional work0.90text
Metafictionis aStanley Parable0.90text
Metafictionis ainstrumental part0.90text
Lost in the Funhouse by John Barthinstance ofwith works0.80text
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokovinstance ofwith works0.80text
metalepsisinstance oftechniques0.80text
Metafictionrelated to Critical and non-criticalCritical0.60section
Metafictionrelated to Critical and non-criticalNon-critical0.60section
Metafictionrelated to Direct and indirectDirect0.60section
Metafictionrelated to Direct and indirectContrarily0.60section
Metafictionrelated to Direct and indirectSince0.60section
Metafictionrelated to Explicit and implicitExplicit0.60section

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