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He played himself, campily, in Wayne's World . He draws thousands of fans to his goofy, self-consciously bombastic concerts.
It started last fall in the country when I was invited to join a "bulb club"--a self-consciously pre-feminist all-girl group that meets to buy bulbs in bulk at reduced rates and exchange bits of gardening wisdom.
Others insist he self-consciously aimed to represent emotions and landscapes.
Anything with an urban or a rural setting is self-consciously played as "different."
Several recent reviews buck the critical consensus and deride the book, the story of a Confederate deserter, for being too self-consciously novelistic (James Gardner, National Review ). Like "a literary approximation of an already literary idea of reality," says Slate's James Wood.