poioumenon

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noun

A specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).

OriginAncient Greek ποιούμενον →
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Meanings

nounpoioumenon (plural poioumena)

plural poioumena

  1. literatureA specific type of metafiction in which the story is about the process of creation (sometimes the creation of the story itself).

    The poioumenon has a long prehistory (hardly a tradition), going back through Beckett's trilogy and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus to Sterne's Tristram Shandy; but it is preeminently a postmodernist genre.

    1991, Alastair Fowler, A History of English Literature

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekποιούμενον
  2. Englishpoioumenon

Ancient Greek ποιούμενον (poioúmenon), "product".

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poioumenon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poioumenon

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“poioumenon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poioumenon. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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