metafiction
US /ˌmet.əˈfɪk.ʃən/
UK /ˌmet.əˈfɪk.ʃən/
名词
元小说
fiction in which the author self-consciously alludes to the artificiality or literariness of a work by deliberately breaking narrative conventions and drawing attention to its own status as an artifact.
示例:
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Many postmodern novels employ metafiction to explore the nature of storytelling.
许多后现代小说运用元小说来探讨叙事的本质。
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The author's use of metafiction made the reader aware of the book as a constructed reality.
作者对元小说的运用使读者意识到这本书是一种建构的现实。