| The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction. |
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| In 1960, metafiction popped up, describing self-referential novels that dealt with the writing of fiction. |
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| An investigation of transworld identity, historiographic metafiction, creative writing, postmodernism, and narrative voice. |
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| The content of the interview is a metafiction that navigates the cultural space between imagined signs and social truths. |
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| With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event. |
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| Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America. |
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| This kind of self-reflexiveness, through pastiche and quotation, is characteristic of metafiction and metafilm. |
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| Most metafiction tends towards narcissistic tail-chasing, but let's keep going. |
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| The latter story, a somewhat incomplete-seeming outline of a tale, is as much an early exercise in metafiction and ghost-storytelling technique as a coherent narrative. |
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| He usually gets lumped in with the metafiction crowd but unlike his peers, Powers is capable of breaking your heart. |
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| The mixing of fantastic and realistic modes and the ragged edges he makes between invention and representation, has been generally described as magical realism or metafiction. |
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| The novel might be a metafiction in the style of John Barth, who has also in his eighties been influenced by cognitive science. |
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| The second narrative technique, metafiction, works in opposition to point-of-view narration to align the reader with the author at the expense of the fictional subject. |
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| A moment of self-deprecation or metafiction? |
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| The plot thickens, the layers of metafiction deepen, but all the while Duncker manages to unfurl a novel the structure of which is never baggy or wanting. |
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| Here we enter the realm of metafiction as our narrational frame of reference or persona begins to reflect on the circumstances of his own text's composition. |
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