Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A form of intertextual discourse in which one text makes critical commentary on another.
Etymologies
- meta- + textuality (Wiktionary)
Examples
“It's ostensibly a horror story, but the multiple narrations and typographical tricks - including one chapter that cuts down through the middle of the book - make it as much a comment on metatextuality as a novel.”
“His fiction incorporated time travel, metatextuality and ironic twists of fate.”
“Your Maid from Mexico, In English and Spanish - filigree the novel with Borgesian metatextuality, accreting a complexity of author and subject, ipseity and frame of reference.”
“Someone beat me to metatextuality (“Cup o’ Joe” counts as a comic character, right?), so then we go for spectacle:”
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“And metatextuality is a short-term gag; I don’t know that an entire series could be written with the characters commenting on the machinations of the writers of their series.”
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