Why this word is great
METALITERATURE — [Noun] Literature that examines or embodies its own nature as literature, weaving self-awareness into its fabric. From meta- ("beyond, about") + literature ("written works, especially those considered of artistic or intellectual merit"), it is the art of texts turning inward to interrogate their making. Unlike "literary criticism" (which dissects from the outside) or "metafiction" (which plays with fictionality alone), metaliterature is the hall of mirrors where form and function reflect each other endlessly. It is the novelist who writes a novel about a novelist, the poem that interrogates its own meter, or the play where actors debate their roles mid-scene—a recursive dance where creation and commentary become indistinguishable, and the act of writing becomes its own subject.