Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

historiographic metafiction

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English

Syllables: his-to-ri-o-graph-ic metafic-tion
IPA

44

Scrabble Score

26

Letters

7

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of postmodern historical fiction employing metafiction.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"This assumption leads us to historiographic metafiction, a style of writing that emerged during the postmodern era. If there is fiction in scholarly historiography, where is the difference between that and a novel that deals with history?"
"Although works classified as “historiographic metafiction” have been seen by numerous critics as the continuation into the eighties of the work of Pynchon, Coover, Barth, and Gass, this application of the concept turns on metafiction's identification with its anti-mimetic, counter-realist self-descriptions. […] McHale identifies three devices in historiographic metafiction: —apocryphal history, creative anachronism, and historical fantasy […]"

Etymology

Coined by Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

historiographic metafictions (plural)

Questions

What does historiographic metafiction mean?: A type of postmodern historical fiction employing metafiction.
Where does historiographic metafiction come from?: Coined by Canadian literary theorist Linda Hutcheon.

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