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[...] these works expose what might be taken by such a reader as simply being "given" as a picture - and therefore something that might be relinquished - or chosen - as opposed to being merely reproduced or capitulated to. Although there is nothing wrong with their doing so, readers need not "ide…

a decision to abjure finding out more

fiction itself is "dialogical," not just in the Bakhtinian sense that it gives credence to contradictory voices or viewpoints