List of metafictional works

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This is a partial list of works that use metafictional ideas. Metafiction is intentional allusion or reference to a work's fictional nature. It is commonly used for humorous or parodic effect, and has appeared in a wide range of mediums, including writing, film, theatre, and video gaming.

Novels, novellas and short stories[]

See also: Category:Metafictional works

Pre-20th century works[]

  • Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
  • Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
  • Jane Austen, Mansfield Park[1]
  • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
  • Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World
  • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
  • Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist
  • Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  • James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
  • Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
  • William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
  • Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
  • The Plum in the Golden Vase
  • Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber
  • Zhuangzi
  • Ki no Tsurayuki, Tosa Nikki
  • Unknown, Sarashina Nikki
  • H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

Modern and contemporary works[]

Children's books and young adult fiction[]

Animated short films[]

  • Chuck Jones, Duck Amuck (1953) and Rabbit Rampage (1955).

Stage plays[]

Pre-20th century plays[]

Modern theater works[]

  • Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot; Endgame
  • Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, The Mighty Boosh (1998 stage show)
  • Federico García Lorca, Play Without a Title / Untitled Play (1935)
  • Joseph Heller, We Bombed in New Haven
  • Arthur L. Kopit, End of the World with Symposium to Follow
  • Ira Levin, Deathtrap
  • Daniel MacIvor, Never Swim Alone and
  • Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
  • Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
  • Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
  • Peter Weiss, Marat/Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade)
  • Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
  • Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

Musicals[]

Films[]

  • Keith Allen and Peter Richardson's Comic Strip film Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
  • Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, and Midnight in Paris
  • Robert Altman's The Player
  • Troy Duffy's Boondock Saints
  • Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill's 22 Jump Street
  • Steve Bendelack's The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
  • Ingmar Bergman's Persona, The Magician, Prison, and The Passion of Anna
  • Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World
  • Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles and Spaceballs
  • John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness
  • Wes Craven's Scream and Wes Craven's New Nightmare
  • Wyllis Cooper's Quiet, Please scripts
  • Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt
  • David Cronenberg's Videodrome, Naked Lunch, and eXistenZ
  • Tom DiCillo's Living In Oblivion
  • Federico Fellini's 8½
  • David Fincher's Fight Club
  • Marc Forster's Stranger Than Fiction
  • Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz (film)"
  • Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's Epic Movie
  • Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless
  • Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Mâcon
  • 's Lovely By Surprise
  • Michael Haneke's Funny Games
  • Jim Henson's Muppets franchise (The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets from Space, The Muppets, and Muppets Most Wanted)
  • Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York and Adaptation
  • Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr.
  • David Lynch's Inland Empire
  • John McTiernan's Last Action Hero
  • Coleman Miller's Uso Justo
  • John Cameron Mitchell's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch (film)"
  • Mike Myers and Michael McCullers's Austin Powers
  • Andrew Niccol's The Truman Show
  • Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld's Deadpool and Deadpool 2
  • Christopher Nolan's Inception
  • Trey Parker's South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  • Roman Polanski's What?
  • Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman's American Splendor
  • Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
  • Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run
  • David Wain and Michael Showalter's They Came Together
  • Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Buddy Johnson, , Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer, and Wes Craven's Scary Movie
  • 's Rubber
  • Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's The Cabin in the Woods
  • James Franco's Interior. Leather Bar.
  • Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story, a film adaptation of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
  • Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz
  • Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody
  • Saw Teong Hin's You Mean the World to Me (film)
  • Neill Blomkamp's District 9
  • Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, and Bob Persichetti's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Television shows[]

Comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, and manga[]

Interactive media and video games []

Web videos[]

  • How It Should Have Ended
  • Harry Potter and the 10 Years Later
  • Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
  • Petscop
  • CollegeHumor
  • Cracked.com
  • I'm a Marvel and I'm a DC

Multiple authors[]

Artists' books[]

References[]

  1. ^ Bonaparte, Felicia. ""Let Other Pens Dwell On Guilt And Misery": The Ordination Of The Text And The Subversion Of "Religion" In Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park"." Religion & Literature 43, no. 2 (2011): 45-67. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23347030
  2. ^ Peter Siljedahl (1996). "Bert och Boysen" (in Swedish). Boktips. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d Muncy, Jack (2016-01-18). "The Best New Videogames Are All About … Videogames". Wired. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
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