buried under a surfeit of "post-" prefixes

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

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

Rick Vigorous, one of the more voluble characters

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

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

Lenore Beadsman's erratic progress towards equipoise and self-reliance

obsolescent conventions of the eclogue tradition

The eschatological theme of the game bleeds into the reality, just as the boundaries of the map are blurred

Exhaustive critical commentary quickly tends towards annotation, which in turn tends ultimately towards a kind of Borgesian replicatin of the text in itself.