Metafiction, Literary History, and the Limits of Industrial Identity in Winesburg, Ohio

The Three Most Distinctive Features That Define Pale Fire as Metafiction

“…The term "Metafiction" was firstly raised by the American critic and selfconscious novelist William H. Gass in his work in 1970. Ever since its debut, numerous scholars have tried to define the term metafiction from their own perspective (Colton, 2018;Gontchar, 2017). There were a lot of alternative definitions of Metafiction before it was officially put forward.…”