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In spite of the death of the traditional realistic novel announced in the 1960s, some fashion of realism has continued to flourish. As David Lodge writes in The Modes of Modern Writing,Links of London Jewellery

There is ... a certain kind of contemporary avant-garde art which is said to be neither modernist nor antimodernist, but postmodernist; it continues the modernist critique of traditional mimetic art, and shares the modernist coinmitment to innovation, but pursues these aims by methods of its own. It tries to go beyond modernism, or around it, and is often as critical of modernism as it is of antimodernismLinks of London Charm.

Indeed, many critics have noted the appearance of a new type of novel, one which seems to "blur the boundaries between postmodern 'experiment' and 'Realism'". John Barth calls this genre the "Literature of Replenishment" because it takes up and transforms old forms. Malcolm Bradbury likewise insists on the coupling of self-reflexive parody and realistic historical reference, or of artifice and mimesis: 'That double haunting does seem a familiar feature of quite a lot of our writing, seeking its new relation both with the fracturing spirit of modernism and with the ways of nineteenth-century vraisemblance". This paradoxical novel is part of what has been named the "turn to ethics in the 1990's", a sort of revival of a revised humanism in literature and in literary criticism. Linda Hutcheon has coined the now well-known term Sirens Leaf Earrings"historiographic metafiction" to describe this new hterary form, which is both "intensely self-reflexive" and rooted in the "historical world", while Susana Onega predicted its explosion as early as the 1980s.Sweetie Wide Ring