metafiction
noun
meta·fic·tion
ˌme-tə-ˈfik-shən 
: fiction which refers to or takes as its subject fictional writing and its conventions
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As a metafiction about Clooney’s own Hollywood trajectory, Jay Kelly even dips into outright sentimentality, particularly in a Tuscan montage sequence that’s right out of Cinema Paradiso.
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
No, don’t ever call my novels metafiction!
—Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
Ingmar Bergman’s early-fifties soap commercials put daring methods—metafiction, animation, and even a 3-D parody—to comedic ends.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
This season has felt like reading a piece of metafiction.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 10 May 2025
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Scott Tobias, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
No, don’t ever call my novels metafiction!
—Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
Ingmar Bergman’s early-fifties soap commercials put daring methods—metafiction, animation, and even a 3-D parody—to comedic ends.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
This season has felt like reading a piece of metafiction.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 10 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for metafiction
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“Metafiction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metafiction. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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