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English
Etymology
From xeno- + encyclopedia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zɛnəɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpi(ː).di.ə/
- Hyphenation: xe‧no‧en‧cy‧clo‧pe‧dia
Noun
xenoencyclopedia (plural xenoencyclopedias)
- (science fiction, rare) An encyclopedia of science fiction.
2012, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., “Of Enigmas and Xenoencyclopedias”, in Science Fiction Studies, volume 39, number 3:The competent reader gradually learns more and more about the genre's own grand-scale xenoencyclopedia in order to understand each new work's specific xenoencyclopedia...
2015, Maylis Rospide, Sandrine Sorlin, The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity: New Perspectives on Genre Literature:The (xeno)encyclopedia of the (science fiction) reader In L'empire du pseudo, Richard Saint-Gelais applies Umberto Eco's textual cooperation theory to the science fiction genre. He proposes to call “xenoencyclopedia” all the cognitive ...
2018, J.M. Méon, “Sons and Grandsons of Origins: Narrative Memory in Marvel Superhero Comics”, in Comics Memory:They offer a supplement—or possibly a starting point—to the reader's “personal encyclopedia” (Eco 1985 ) or, in this case, “xeno-encyclopedia” (Saint-Gelais 1999), which was constituted through previous Marvel readings and which these publications help to configure according to the publisher's...