D.Lodge's Nice Work (1982):

This extract is taken from David Lodge's Nice Work published in 1982, and it is a parody of the Victorian Novel.

The narrator is 3^rd person omniscient intrusive, because he uses phrases such as "let us", or he guide the reader who is not free to make his judgments.  

In the first sequence, the narrator leaves a Character, Vic Wilcox and creates expectation in the reader for introducing the character's characterization.

He informs the reader that the character is an unusual one and  that she doesn't believe in the "concept of character".

This character is a female, Robyn Penrose and she is a "very different character". The reader comes to know about her conviction about the concept of character, her way to communicate and proper names recalls that of Robin Hood, her social temporary position, she is a "Temporary Lecturer".  

Robin's idea are typical postmodern: she clearly explain that the logic order the novel is perfectly in line with the one the capitalism (" the rise of the novel.. coincides with rise of capitalism"; " the triumph of the novel coincides with the triumph of the capitalism", " the deconstruction of the novel coincides with the terminal crisis of the capitalism"), because both rely one the concept of the united self and of an autonomous individual, be it a character, a capitalist or a novelist.

They all the same have to win the market competition to find happiness and fortune according to the logic of materialism.

Moreover  she refuses the concept of  character, because it is a "bourgeois myth" and corresponds to the ideology of capitalism and it is single "finite, unique soul or essence that constitutes a person's identity".

In the second part of the extract the narrator focuses his attention on the idea of identity.

According to Robyn idea the character has a lot of self, as a matter of fact she affirms " there is only  a subject position in an infinite web discourses (power, sex, family and so...)".

The ideology of Robin is typically postmodernist.