Christine Brooke-Rose‘s literary output includes criticism, literary theory, novels, a collection of short stories, poetry, and an autobiography. She is an influential twentieth-century critic and theorist, and her fiction has been continually innovative, pushing the limits of narration and representation. It can be grouped into three periods: the early satiric novels, the discourse novels, and the human-technology novels. These variously subvert the conventions of realist fiction through linguistic distortions (punning, misquotations), discursive grafting, and polysemous narration. The Dictionary of Literary Biography judges that, while her work does not adhere “to any single mode or school of expression,” she can be regarded as postmodernist in the sense that her novels align themselves “with aspects of cybernetics, gender consciousness, and forms of intertextuality.” Go to Orlando>