Indeed, the convergence of postmodern literature with various modes of critical theory , particularly reader-response and deconstructionist approaches, and the subversions of the implicit contract between author, text and reader by which its works are often characterised, have led to pre-modern fictions such as Cervantes ' Don Quixote (1605,1615) and Laurence Sterne 's eighteenth-century satire Tristram Shandy being retrospectively inducted into the fold.