Metafiction Metafiction is a term used to describe novels that specifically and self-consciously examine the nature and status of fiction itself and that often contain experiments to test fiction as a form in one way or another. As a word, metafiction means fiction about fiction. Most metafictions cannot be easily classified in the conventional categories of realism or romance and in fact disobey these rules and conventions of these genres. William H. Gass coined the term “metafiction” in the essay entitled “Philosophy and the Form of Fiction.” The term is popularized by Robert Scholes. Metafiction is primarily associated with modernist and post-modernist literature. Egs: John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse and Donald Bartheleme’s Overnight to Many Distant Cities @english_lit_qom