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pars pro toto (la)

part (taken) for the whole

Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature
by Allard Pieter den Dulk

Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature
by Allard Pieter den Dulk

Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer: A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature
by Allard Pieter den Dulk


To label this literary trend 'metafiction' is a pars pro toto, symbolic of its larger postmodernist project of unveiling artificiality and problematizing reality.

—p.90 Postmodernist Metafiction: John Barth (88) by Allard Pieter den Dulk
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