Word: leitmotif
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Colonialism (along with its inevitable handmaidens--economic and cultural subordination) is the central concern which informs much of their work. Their leitmotif is exile (its corollaries, dispossession and displacement) and the attempt to resolve the enigma of arrival and assimilation in a culture not their own. Their focus is still on empire and the oscillation of loyalties...
Herein lies the structural leitmotif that encapsulates Mr. Lodge's main theme, a device readers of Mr. Lodge's have come to expect. Roger Sheldrake, an aggressive anthropologist, explains to Bernard the thesis of his book: "Sightseeing," he lectures," is a substitute for religious ritual." His model includes travels as a pilgrimage through which some transformative healing process is intended to occur. Mr. Lodge's book is based on the same thesis, to some extent, as Sheldrake...
...Many of your novels seem to include a type of structural leitmotif or metaphor. What I mean, for example, is that in Nice Work, the character Robyn explains to us what the 19th century Industrial Novel was, and your actual novel fits that description. How does this happen in Paradise News? Are you using genre as mechanism...