English
Adjective
self-referential (comparative more self-referential, superlative most self-referential)
#That or who refers to itself or oneself; used as a stylistic device when done in literary works.
Quotations
1991: Many women authors extend the sort of metafictional self-scrutiny which The Golden Notebook so extensively sustains: Eva Figes's novels, for example, often raise self-referential questioning of their own representational validity and Muriel Spark teases several of her heroines with unsettling awareness of the process of their own creation. — Postmodernism and contemporary fiction, Smyth, Edmund J., B T Batsford Ltd
Related terms
self-reference
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