* 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 |
* 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 |
