| 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. |
| 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. |
| The novel might be a metafiction in the style of John Barth, who has also in his eighties been influenced by cognitive science. |
| An investigation of transworld identity, historiographic metafiction, creative writing, postmodernism, and narrative voice. |
| With its multi-tiered narrative and myriad metafiction conceits, the novel has all the makings of a literary event. |
| In 1960, metafiction popped up, describing self-referential novels that dealt with the writing of fiction. |
