In contradistinction, fictio-metafiction refers to a text’s constructedness as well as the conditions of production and reception that contribute to the characterization of texts as fiction. ibid.: 247f.): Fictum-metafiction relates to a text’s potential truth status, that is, the feasibility of determining its truth. To characterize different forms of metafiction, Wolf introduces a distinction between fictio- and fictum-metafiction (cf. Thus, the term is a hypernym denoting all sorts of self-reflective utterances and elements of a fictional narrative that do not treat their referent as apparent reality but instead induce readers to reflect on the textuality and fictionality of narrative in terms of its artifactuality (Wolf 1993: 224). fiction that includes within itself reflections on its own fictional identity (Hutcheon 1980). Metafiction is, literally, fiction about fiction, i.e.

Metafiction describes the capacity of fiction to reflect on its own status as fiction and thus refers to all self-reflexive utterances which thematize the fictionality (in the sense of imaginary reference and/or constructedness) of narrative.

Therefore, the widely-used umbrella term metafiction not only needs to be elaborated, but a clear distinction also has to be made between metanarration and other forms of self-reflexive narration. However, these two types of narrative self-reflexivity differ greatly, and this difference has tended to be ignored in most existing typologies. Metanarration and metafiction therefore have one point in common, namely their self-reflexive or self-referential character. The terms “metanarration” and “metafiction” are both based on the model of metalanguage, which designates a (system of) language positioned on a level above the ordinary use of words for referential purpose (Fludernik 2003: 15). narrative utterances about narrative rather than fiction about fiction. Thus, whereas metafictionality designates the quality of disclosing the fictionality of a narrative, metanarration captures those forms of self-reflexive narration in which aspects of narration are addressed in the narratorial discourse, i.e. Although they are related and often used interchangeably, the terms should be distinguished: metanarration refers to the narrator’s reflections on the act or process of narration metafiction concerns comments on the fictionality and/or constructedness of the narrative. comments referring to the discourse rather than to the story. Metanarration and metafiction are umbrella terms designating self-reflexive utterances, i.e.

Hiw to construct a meta narrative