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- Although they are related and often used interchangeably, the terms should be distinguished: metanarration refers to the narrator’s reflections on the act or process of narration; metafiction concerns comments on the fictionality and/or constructedness of the narrative.
Although they are related and often used interchangeably, the terms should be distinguished: metanarration refers to the narrator’s reflections on the act or process of narration; metafiction concerns comments on the fictionality and/or constructedness of the narrative.
Jan 28, 2012 · Although they are related and often used interchangeably, the terms should be distinguished: metanarration refers to the narrator’s reflections on the act or process of narration; metafiction concerns comments on the fictionality and/or constructedness of the narrative.
Amid the plethora of terms designating literary self-consciousness – fabulation, metafiction, surfiction, anti-mimetic fiction, metanarration, postmodernist fiction, auto-representational fiction, romantic irony, et cetera – metafiction is by far the most widespread.
He starts out from a distinction between. metanarration and metafiction, arguing that metanarration "thematizes the act and/or process of narration", whereas metafiction "discloses the arte- factual nature of the narrated or the act of narration" ("eine Bloßlegung der.
Metanarrative may be related and is often used interchangeably with metafiction but there is a distinction. The latter foregrounds or discloses the fictionality of a narrative while metanarrative does not undercut fiction.
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The paper argues that one should distinguish between metafiction and metanarrative and addresses some of the terminological and typological issues pertaining to the concept of metanarrative.
