Saturday, 7 January 2012

Themes & Techniques

Techniques:

*        metafiction
*        non-linearity
*        frame-breaking
*        chinese box worlds
*        mise-en-abyme; trompe-l’oeil
*        intertextuality
*        author as character
*        historical and 'transworld' characters
*        polychronotopes
*        irony
*        parody
*        pastiche
*        genre mixing
*        palimtexts
*        bricolage
*        palimsestic
*        fusion of high/low art
*        mixed styles
*        self-reflexivity
*        self-consciousness
*        open-endedness
*        picaresque
*        fictioning
Themes:

*        mirrors; glasses etc.
*        fairs; circuses; sideshows; carnivals; theatres
*        characters as performers
*        cinema; screens
*        historiography
*        literary fantastic/SF tropes
*        fragmentation/splitting of characters
*        uncertainty/contradiction
*        marginalised characters
*        hybrid, cyborg, fluid characters
*        paranoia, schizophrenia, conspiracy theories
*        postmodern condition (advanced media/technology; ecological disintegration)
*        polymorphousness/androgyny
*        labyrinth/maze

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