Editing Meta-reference (section)

=== Literature ===
John Fowles begins chapter 13 of his novel ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'' with the words<blockquote>This ''story'' I am ''telling'' is all ''imagination''. These ''characters'' I create never existed outside my own mind. If I have pretended until now to know my ''characters''<nowiki/>' mind and innermost thoughts, it is because I am ''writing'' in [...] a ''convention'' universally accepted at the time of my ''story'': that the ''novelist'' stands next to God.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The French Lieutenant's Woman|last=Fowels|first=John|publisher=Vintage|year=2005|isbn=978-0-099-49707-3|location=London|pages=97}}</ref> [emphases added]</blockquote>This is an example of explicit meta-reference because the text draws attention to the fact that the novel the recipient is reading is merely a fiction created by the author. It also foregrounds the convention that readers of [[realist fiction]] accept the presence of an all-knowing narrator, and breaks it by allowing the narrator to take centre stage which invites meta-reflections by the recipient.

In American comic books published by [[Marvel Comics]], the character [[Deadpool]] is aware that he is a fictional comic book character. He commonly breaks the [[fourth wall]], to humorous effect. To other non-aware characters in the story, Deadpool's self-awareness as a comic book character appears to be a form of [[psychosis]]. When other characters question whether Deadpool's real name is even Wade Wilson, he jokes that his true identity depends on which writer the reader prefers.<ref>"Cable and Deadpool" #47.</ref>