self-referential
suomi-englanti sanakirjaself-referential englanniksi
(quote-journal)|date=15 March 1854|volume=V|issue=120|page=394|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmwPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA394|column=1|oclc=7546319|passage=That is a very pleasant line, the one that we have italicized; (..) Why did he &91;(w)&93; not write more such? He might answer that he did, and that his poetry was full of enjoyment. But it is not; at least not in the entirely happy, familiar, unmisgiving, self-referential, and yet not self-loving sense that we speak of.
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In a literary work: referring to the author or the author's other works.
(quote-book)|year=1846|volume=I|page=41|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXEJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA41|oclc=702211580|passage=It &91;(w)'s ''(w)''&93; also has a design strictly self-referential. The author feigns, that the beatified spirit of his mistress has obtained leave to warn and purify his soul by shewing him the state of things in the next world.
(quote-book)'' so extensively sustains: (w)'s novels, for example, often raise self-referential questioning of their own representational validity and (w) teases several of her heroines with unsettling awareness of the process of their own creation.
(quote-book) or (w), to name only two of the many authors who come to mind.