Activity

what I call Walace's "skeletal narrative," which involves the undermining and eventual collapse of a surface narrative to reveal the "true" or "real" story, by means of jarring elements planted within the narrative voice itself

language uses resemble each other in a wide variety of ways but with no central sine qua non feature

Rick Vigorous, one of the more voluble characters

those techniques are actually more for reminding the reader that what he or she is reading is mediated

the theoretical bulwark for a literature that was simultaneously challenging and therapeutic