Paradox

Pastiche: The taking of various ideas from

previous writings and literary styles and pasting
them together to make new styles.

Intertextuality: The acknowledgment of previous

literary works within another literary work.

Metafiction: The act of writing about writing or

making readers aware of the fictional nature of the
very fiction they're reading.
  The use of non-linear timelines
Temporal
and narrative techniques in a
Distortion
story.

 The use of characters and events

which are decidedly common and
Minimalis
m non-exceptional characters.

 Disorganized, lengthy, highly

Maximalism
detailed writing.
Reader Involvement:
Often through direct
address to the reader and
the open acknowledgment
of the fictional nature of the  Faction: The mixing
events being described.
of actual historical
events with fictional
events without clearly
Magical Realism: The defining what is factual
introduction of impossible or and what is fictional.
unrealistic events into a
narrative that is otherwise
realistic.
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 Authors
Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, a trilogy
in which all characters turn out to be one.
In a 1993 essay on the "death of postmodernism," Raymond
Federman argued that postmodernism had died with Beckett in
1989.
Zadie Smith: She was a young unknown when she burst onto the
scene with White Teeth. The story introduces us to two pals who
met during WWII and goes on to describe what's been happening
in their lives.
Doris Lessing
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Julian Barnes
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters is a novel published in
1989. It is a collection of short stories in different styles;
however, at some points they echo each other and have
subtle connection points. Most are fictional but some are
historical.[1]
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