Definitions
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- noun The act or result of
fabulating ; afabrication . - noun literary criticism A style of modern fiction, similar to
magical realism andpostmodernism .
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Examples
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With many of the works of Philip K. Dick however, we might argue that the major fabulation is focused on the metaphysical but the context of scientific fabulation it is embedded within is sufficient to classify the work as SF ... by this definition.
Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005
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With many of the works of Philip K. Dick however, we might argue that the major fabulation is focused on the metaphysical but the context of scientific fabulation it is embedded within is sufficient to classify the work as SF ... by this definition.
SF Considered As A Subset Of SF Hal Duncan 2005
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That essay was decidedly ambivalent in tone and John Clute, who prefers the more scholarly sounding term fabulation, noted that ‘slipstream’ had inappropriately derogatory connotations.
What Is Slipstream? star_tourmaline 2006
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Coming from insiders to whom a term like "fabulation" actually means something, this hyperbole is excusable, even endearing; it's as if a team of hotel chefs were getting excited about their assortment of cabbages.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Coming from insiders to whom a term like "fabulation" actually means something, this hyperbole is excusable, even endearing; it's as if a team of hotel chefs were getting excited about their assortment of cabbages.
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Coming from insiders to whom a term like "fabulation" actually means something, this hyperbole is excusable, even endearing; it's as if a team of hotel chefs were getting excited about their assortment of cabbages.
A Reader's Manifesto 2001
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Coming from insiders to whom a term like "fabulation" actually means something, this hyperbole is excusable, even endearing; it's as if a team of hotel chefs were getting excited about their assortment of cabbages.
A Reader's Manifesto 2001
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Scholes splits "fabulation" into two major components: dogmatic and speculative.
Anime Nano! 2009
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The journalism profession has bright ethical lines for plagiarism and the kind of fabulation Blair engaged in.
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The journalism profession has bright ethical lines for plagiarism and the kind of fabulation Blair engaged in.
ruzuzu commented on the word fabulation
"A style of modern fiction, similar to magical realism and postmodernism." --Wiktionary
April 13, 2011