Hard-to-Google Lit. Crit. Queries...

[steepholm]

Is there a general term for novels (or other fictions) that contain/mention themselves? I mean, the novel is called The Book of Glum, and it's about someone who turns out to be writing or reading a book called The Book of Glum, or we're at least given to know that this is a world where The Book of Glum already exists?

Also, is there decent existing discussion (in journals or elsewhere) of this phenomenon?

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[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I bought a bunch of John M. Ford's books recently, and discovered that his The Final Reflection (a Star Trek novel) has a framing story in which McCoy tells Kirk to read The Final Reflection.