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that put forward by physical Sciences: as proven by the famous Sokal hoax,
which shed light upon a great deal of pompous silliness (see The Sokal Hoax),
scholars in the Humanities are not prepared to deal with matters as removed
from their field of expertise as can be the recent developments in physical
Sciences.
22- The concept of mode designates the narrative conception of the work vis-ävis reality; it is preferable to that of “genre,” which has become terminologically
vague, since it refers both to format (short story, novel), thematic categories
(detective stories, romance novels) and narrative conceptions, i.e., modes
(realism, romanticism