• Postmodern and self-reflexive currents reconfigure narrative authority, negating stable meanings, foregrounding textuality, and inviting reader participation across modern fiction [3], [15], [16].

• Textual practice and truth-claims become central methodological concerns, analyzing authenticity, fake discourse, and the politics of representation within contemporary fiction [10], [11], [15], [16].

• Narrative voice and perspective studies cluster around first-person modalities, psychoanalytic or psychological readings, and innovative authorial strategies shaping interpretation [5], [7], [9], [12].

• Linguistic and semiotic analyses underpin cross-genre investigations, linking linguistics to narrative theory, science fiction criticism, and poetics of fiction [1], [6], [15].

• Temporal structure and time in fiction emerge as a core axis, examining temporal logic, narrative time, and evolution of the novel form across decades [8], [17], [19].