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both the emotional credibility of conventional realism and a frisson of postmodern wordply

although they preserve such experience, they do so at a mimetic remove

if one takes postmodernism's proffered exit and happily turns the novels into fascinating melodramatic bricolage

the usual manner in which contemporary criticism elides the question of authorial intention

The zeugma of 'families and shipwrecks in the newspaper' is marvellous.