metatextual

English

metatextual (comparative more metatextual, superlative most metatextual)

Constituting self-referential text (text about the text); for example, as mentioned earlier herein.
Of or pertaining to metatextuality.
- 2016 October 2, David Sims, “Westworld Is a Grand Saga of Gunslingers and Robots”, in The Atlantic‎:
  Still, the meta-textual cleverness of the whole affair takes a little while to settle into, partly because the early storylines feel so routine.
- 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 5 March 2018:
  The metatextual tweak to the then-tired franchise was a creative shot in the arm, and though it didn’t set the box office on fire, it set the stage for Scream’s brilliant deconstruction of the genre.

of or pentaining to metatextuality

metatextual m or f (masculine and feminine plural metatextuals)

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