Wolf (Simplified) System of Forms of Reference in Literature and Other Media REFERENCE HETERO-REFERENCE/ HETERO-REFERENTIALITY SELF-REFERENTIALITY/ SELF-REFERENCE formal self-reference through similarity, contrast, serialization (^metareference ^) self-referenc>4mply^ comment (a reflection on the medium and related issues) indirect (extracompositional) self-referene direct (intracompositional) self-reference indirect (extracompositional) metareference direct (intracompositional) metareference e.g. general intertextuality e.g. semantic recurrences, rhymes, etc.) e.g. parody (as a form of metareferential intertextuality) e.g. metapoetic, metafictional, metadramatic reflections on the text one is reading