Metafiction and Biomythography in The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
text by Barbara Braid Metafiction is typically associated with the postmodern novel. The most well-known definition, coined by Patricia Waugh in 1984, specifically pertains to this medium, describing metafiction as fiction that “self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artefact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality” (2). […]