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- noun A form of
intertextual discourse in which onetext makescritical commentary on another.
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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His fiction incorporated time travel, metatextuality and ironic twists of fate.
Stories: Local News 2009
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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
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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
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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.
Archive 2007-05-01 Fred Perry 2007
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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.
Comic musings for 9 May Fred Perry 2007
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