metafiction

Meaning

Noun

• A form of self-referential literature concerned with the art and devices of fiction itself.

Origin

• meta- + fiction, coined in 1970 by William H. Gass{{cite-book
• |title=Metafiction
• |publisher=Routledge
• |year=1984
• |year_published=2013
• |isbn=0-415-29133-X
• |author=Patricia Waugh
• |page=151
• |pageurl=https://books.google.de/books?id=EVNGAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA151&dq=metafiction+1970&hl=it&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX2NmbmKngAhUQaVAKHVsyATgQ6AEIOTAC#v=onepage&q=metafiction%201970&f=false
• |passage=‘Metafiction’ itself is first used as a term by William H. Gass, in Fiction and the Figures of Life (New York, 1970), p. 25.