“Metafiction”意谓“元小说”或“超小说”。“Meta”作为前缀常被当代评论家用来组成文学术语,如“Metacriticism”、“Metatheatre”。“Meta”的希腊文原意是“超”或“更高逻辑形式的”。批评家把它作为某学科或某过程的字首来表明一种新的与原学科或原过程有关的学科或过程,这种新的学科或过程以逻辑或批判的方式来对待原学科、原过程的本质、结构、逻辑、行为。例如,“Metatheory”即“元理论”,是一种研究、分析或描述理论本身的理论。 Metafiction means “meta fiction” or “super fiction.” “Meta” as a prefix is ​​often used by contemporary critics to form literary terms, such as “Metacriticism”, “Metatheatre”. The Greek of “Meta” was intended to be “super” or “higher logical”. Critics regard it as the prefix of a subject or a process to indicate a new discipline or process related to the original discipline or course that treats the original discipline logically or critically The essence, structure, logic and behavior of the process. For example, “Metatheory” or “meta-theory” is a theory that studies, analyzes or describes the theory itself.