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Definitions

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  • noun A form of intertextual discourse in which one text makes critical commentary on another.

Etymologies

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meta- +‎ textuality

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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.

    doggdot.us 2009

  • His fiction incorporated time travel, metatextuality and ironic twists of fate.

    Stories: Local News 2009

  • 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.

    Brit Lit Blogs 2008

  • Someone beat me to metatextuality (“Cup o’ Joe” counts as a comic character, right?), so then we go for spectacle:

    Win Planet Hulk Before You Can Buy It! » DVDs Worth Watching 2010

  • 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.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Fred Perry 2007

  • 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.

    Comic musings for 9 May Fred Perry 2007

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