Metaliterature (noun)
met-a-lit-er-i-cher
The discussion in any piece of writing of other texts; (Literary Criticism) any literary text which takes the nature of literature as its object; such texts collectively.
1960s; earliest use found in Journal of Politics. From meta- + literature, perhaps after French métalittérature.
Example sentences
“He was thinking of setting up a metaliterature group as opposed to your bog standard book club.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
