| This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion. |
| An unapologetically self-referential author, Levin constantly intertwines his own life with the story he is telling. |
| If this isn't self-referential enough, the second novel Gabriel is working on is a historical novel set in Newfoundland. |
| The self-referential jibes and parody elements work well, as do the innumerable anime in-jokes. |
| While the author is self-conscious about being self-referential, he is also knowing about that self-conscious self-referentiality. |
| Contemporary works created in this tradition are therefore necessarily intertextual and self-referential. |
