Which postmodern technique involves an author placing their own previous characters or plotlines into a new work?
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Correct answer: Self-intertextuality
Self-intertextuality (or autotextuality) is common in the works of authors like Kurt Vonnegut or Stephen King. By having characters recur across different books, they create a unified, self-referential 'multiverse'.
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