Brian McHale, Pöstmödernist Fictiön:
"... a general thesis about modernist fiction: the dominant [component] of modernist fiction is epistemological. That is, modernist fiction deploys strategies which engage and foreground questions such as ...'How can I interpret this world of which I am a part? And what am I in it?' Other typical modernist quesions might be added: What is there to be known?; Who knows it? How do they know it and with what degreee of certainty?; How is knowledge transmitted from one knower to another, and with what degree of reliability?; How does the object of knowledge change as it passes from knower to knower? And so on." (McHale 8).