But the dense, self-reflexive writing and the willfully commercial plot combine here to create what is, in the end, an intriguing but ungainly Frankenstein monster of a novel.
Michiko Kakutani, in the New York Times, identified a mismatch between its "dense, self-reflexive writing" and "wilfully commercial plot", resulting in "an intriguing but ungainly Frankenstein monster of a novel".
Fear has become so reflexive, she wrote in Moscow News, that conversations in hair salons touch on the changes in the Muslim world, the riots in Europe and the reliable conclusion that "everything is about to crash".
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Overall, his combination of reflexive narrative writing and scathing critiques of police violence, poverty and crime in black communities confronts the stories that many media outlets overlook.
Together they wrote "Reflexive Communication in the Culturally Diverse Workplace" (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996).
Reflexive memos were written throughout the project, and emerging hypotheses were checked out in future interviews.
Qualitative rigor was attended to using reflexive memo-writing and audit trail [ 91].
By comparison with Cocteau's surrealistic earlier film The Blood of a Poet (1930), this may seem a relatively straightforward adaptation (notwithstanding the self-reflexive opening in which we see the director himself writing the credits on a blackboard).
5 Unless you are writing something very post-modernist – self-conscious, self-reflexive and "provocative" – be alert for possibilities of using plain familiar words in place of polysyllabic "big" words.
