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Laurence Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy' is celebrated as a highly innovative, proto-postmodern novel primarily because of its:

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1Detached, objective third-person omniscient narration
2Exclusive reliance on a formal epistolary structure
3Extensive use of narrative digressions, interruptions, and meta-fictional self-reference✓
4Strict adherence to a linear chronological timeline

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Extensive use of narrative digressions, interruptions, and meta-fictional self-reference

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