self-referentiality

But self-referentiality doesn't touch the heart, which is the point of a holiday special.

A further self-referentiality or circular characteristic in media ethics is the questioning of its own values.

McCay used metafictional techniques such as self-referentiality in his work.

But self-referentiality is the new black, isn't it?

These gestures might seem like postmodern jokiness, an insider's self-referentiality.

But while philosophy must also reflect on its own existence, self-referentiality alone does not make philosophy.

The tail-biting self-referentiality of this example is not atypical.

Such self-referentiality could be squirm-inducing; here it’s not — or not very often.

But the self-referentiality goes far beyond this.

Bogus self-referentiality is a very slipstreamish pursuit; much like this paragraph itself, actually.

He analyses them regarding limits and possibilities, which remain in spite of the assumed self-referentiality or result from it at the first place.

Rather than despair at the self-undermining self-referentiality of the whole idea, the editors rejoice in it.

How this positions Buffy's light-hearted self-referentiality is the concern.

But much of it disappears into ever decreasing circles of self-referentiality, leaving viewers outside in the cold.

While many literary works carry mythic themes, only a few approach the dense self-referentiality and purpose of mythopoeia.

The self-referentiality of the books can be traced back to his love of Vladimir Nabokov.

The trouble is the self-referentiality.

Self-referentiality, puns, word play, and double meanings are integral to Gainsbourg's style of lyric writing.

Italo Calvino was an ideal collaborator: the two artists share a tongue-in-cheek self-referentiality.

Many works also employ a sense of intertextuality and self-referentiality not found in the literature of previous generations .

The Qur'an possesses a special self-referentiality.

Bickle is known for dressing casually while preaching and for his avoidance of "charismatic self-referentiality".

One commentator has suggested this self-referentiality reflects the advancing encroachment of popular culture into every realm of collective experience.

This approach dovetailed perfectly with Greenberg’s dictum that the destiny of painting, as it approached pure self-referentiality, was to become ever flatter.

(In this, tartan provides early workaday proof of what would later be known as modernist self-referentiality.)