Fictionality

However, not because it imitates reality, but becuase it exposes the fictionality of reality. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Is the Leonard-Wallace link just another example of Mr. Eugenides playing with fashionable ideas about reality and fictionality? ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

Exploiting the fictionality of what is real is a seam of gold that literature will continue to mine in the next few years, I think. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Every reader of a novel is borrowing, if not stealing, someone else's experience; and behind the pleasure of that borrowing there will hover, if we let it, a worry not so much about the fictionality of our lives as of their entrapment in déjà vu. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And there's a rhetorical whimsy reminiscent of some of Atkinson's earlier books, a devil-may-care gesturing at the novel's own fictionality, which can leave the characters threatening to float free of our trust in them. ❋ Justine Jordan (2010)

To find out what those terms are I reversed the normal way of looking at SF, sort of like a Magic Eye picture, so that science-fictionality would be my context, and the historical-contextual forces would be constructed by it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The beginning of that story is dry and mocking, simultaneously pedantic and satirizing pedantry, making no effort at concealing its own fictionality, and yet by the end, without ever visibly shifting tone, it has reduced its readers to a quivering wreck. ❋ Theodora Goss (2009)

However, not to be naive, I undestand the fictionality that was conveyed, that being said, the show still had a lot of truth especially since alot of people from various administrations lent their expertise and knowledge of the real West Wing to the shows episodic inception, day in and day out. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In a sense, the blatant fictionality points up Holmes' limitations: his powers stop short of full-blown authorial omniscience. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is as though the fictionality of the persona is forgotten; in acting out a part one acts the part, and then one begins to act (in “real life”) as the character would act. ❋ Griswold, Charles (2008)

Characters becoming aware of their own fictionality? ❋ David Hadley (2008)

But, speaking of fictionality… so were stories re satellites; trips to the moon; lasers; and so many other damn things SF has previsioned… fictional, that is. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As Link does in many of her stories, Rickert layers several levels of fictionality one on top of the other, telling stories within stories and then allowing elements from one level to infect the 'reality' overlaying it. ❋ Abigail Nussbaum (2007)

There is a level of meta-fictionality--along the lines of the Stratford-upon-Avon souvenir mug placed prominently in the foreground of one of the opening shots of Shakespeare in Love--that cushions her Mansfield Park, and prevents us from taking her version of Austen's life as gospel truth. ❋ Abigail Nussbaum (2007)

[My girlfriend] is [fictional] ❋ Scoliosis_Kid (2019)

"Dude! Stop [searching] online for a [portal gun], [that thing] is fictional." ❋ Fidge123 (2010)

[My favorite] [genre] of fiction is [Science Fiction]. ❋ Downstrike (2004)

There's no such word, [so there's] no [valid] [example]. ❋ Downstrike (2004)

[Fictional] [television]. ❋ Anonymous (2003)

These new DEPer's don't realize that I'm [feeding] them just enough fiction to get them to [sign] a [contract]. ❋ Schmidty06 (2007)

All fiction is [at least] [partially] autobiographical, and all [autobiography] is at least partially fiction. ❋ Killing Kittens (2007)

Fiction- "Omg in that book that boy can fly! So [fiction] bro!" Non-Fiction-"That was a [map], [non-fiction]." ❋ M&D (2016)

i went to [church] today and the [preacher] [kept] telling me to read the greatest work of fiction ever ❋ Cynic (2003)

Dude, had an amazing [night] with you, [things] got [totally] fictional ❋ Airborneali (2016)