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metafiction

genre of fiction about fiction
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Summary

metafiction is a fiction genre[1]. metafiction draws 7,365 Wikipedia views per month (fiction genre category, ranking #7 of 59).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: literary genre[3], book form[4]
  • Subclass of: fiction[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Metafiction[6]
  • Main subject: prose[7]
  • Described at URL: http://edebiyat.k12.org.tr/kavramlar/Üstkurmaca/5[8]
  • Facet of: breaking the fourth wall[9]
  • Described by source: Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[10]
  • Different from: transtextuality[11], metanarrative[12]
  • Uses: recursion[13]
  • P14541: MSkJz[14]

Why It Matters

metafiction has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] metafiction is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_metafiction_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{metafiction}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/metafiction}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15d ago · Emmakops · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'ary', 'as', 'ast', 'az', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo',
    Instance of → fiction genre, literary genre, book form
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: book form"
  2. 4w ago · Neo-Jay · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → transtextuality, metanarrative
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: metanarrative"
  3. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → MSkJz
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → transtextuality, metanarrative
    Subclass of → —
    Instance of → fiction genre, literary genre, book form
    Instance of → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 17999, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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