How to Use metafiction in a Sentence
metafiction
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The show is not just a work of metafiction but an unsparing piece of self-criticism.
—John Semley, The New Republic, 28 July 2022
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But The Muppets’ earnest metafiction goes deep like Inception.
—Scott Thill, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2011
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For Calvino, metafiction is a way of exploring the nature of reality and the ways in which stories can shape our perceptions of the world.
—New York Times, 12 Apr. 2022
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By and large, though, in these two books Mina has mastered the intricacies of metafiction, not to mention edge-of-your-seat storytelling.
—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2022
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With cryptocurrency, the arrangement is more like a shared metafiction, and the instability of the genre is, presumably, part of the thrill.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2021
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YA author Lucy Keating delivers a light and fluffy fiction with citrusy twist of metafiction.
—Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2017
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Like so many of Stoppard’s works in which historical figures come up against the playwright’s irrepressible love of ideas, Hnath’s script is a kind of metafiction.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
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But Zambra’s incursions into metafiction, in which the author peeks in and winks at the reader, feel playful, serendipitous.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2022
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One critic even sees it as a subtle metafiction about the relationship between actual people and the people in books.
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
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But the precision and control of the tales has given way in these pages to a shaggy-dog approach that’s part stream-of-consciousness, part apocalyptic conjuration, part analogy-laden metafiction.
—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2016
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William Greaves’s multilayered metafiction—based on a scripted scene of a couple in crisis—is a documentary about the very nature of fictional films, and the authority of a director trying to make them.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2020
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That warehouse, incidentally, eventually contains its own warehouse, which contains its own warehouse, and so on and so forth: a metaphor within a metaphor, wrapped inside a towering work of metafiction.
—Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 4 Sep. 2020
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Mullins’ overgrown obsession with creepypasta and metafiction feeds on secrecy and modern subgenres of horror to make Inscryption a winding tale full of never-ending twists.
—Joshua Khan, Wired, 26 Dec. 2021
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