Fabulation is a style or genre of fiction that is influenced by magic realism, but does not fit into the traditional categories of realism or (novelistic) romance. Fabulating authors include Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, William H. Gass, Robert Coover, and Ishmael Reed. The term was popularized by Robert Scholes, in his work The Fabulators (1967). As M. H. Abrams wrote,

See also

• Historiographic metafiction

• Metahistorical romance

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Further reading

• Also expanded upon in