What does Patricia Waugh describe as the 'fictionality' of the real world in her study of metafiction?
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Correct answer: The belief that social reality is constructed through language and narrative, just as fiction is
Waugh argues that metafiction mirrors the 'postmodern condition'—the realization that our understanding of reality is shaped by the stories and linguistic systems we use to describe it.
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