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Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism

Author : Stephen J. Burn
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-10-27
ISBN : 1441191240
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (191 Download)

Download PDF Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism Book by Stephen J. Burn Full eBook and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis of each of Franzen's novels - from his early work to the major success of The Corrections - identifying key sources, delineating important narrative strategies, and revealing how Franzen's themes are reinforced by each novel's structure. Supplementing this analysis with comparisons to key contemporaries, David Foster Wallace and Richard Powers, Burn suggests how Franzen's work is indicative of the direction of experimental American fiction in the wake of the so-called end of postmodernism.

Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community

Author : Jesús Blanco Hidalga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-01-26
ISBN : 150131985X
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (319 Download)

Download PDF Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community Book by Jesús Blanco Hidalga Full eBook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention. Aiming to fill this conspicuous gap, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community analyzes each of Franzen's five novels in chronological order to reveal an interior logic animating his work. Integrating various formal and ideological perspectives to illuminate Franzen's work, Jesús Blanco Hidalga demonstrates that the concepts of salvation and redemption, typical of romance narratives, run throughout Franzen's fiction. Even as he re-assesses and expands the familiar interpretations of Franzen's work, Blanco Hidalga shows how these salvation narratives are used for self-legitimization not only by the characters, but by the writer himself. Combining critical rigor with interpretative boldness, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community offers a new theoretical approach to a major contemporary author.

Succeeding Postmodernism

Author : Mary K. Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-04-25
ISBN : 1441159347
Pages : 240 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (159 Download)

Download PDF Succeeding Postmodernism Book by Mary K. Holland Full eBook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading "antihumanist" late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.

Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century

Author : Matthias Stephan
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-25
ISBN : 3030156931
Pages : 206 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (156 Download)

Download PDF Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century Book by Matthias Stephan Full eBook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame. Through an exploration of both prior theoretical approaches, and indicators through characteristics of postmodernist fiction, this book identifies a structural framework to both understand and apply the lessons of postmodernism for the next generation. Within a growing consensus that the postmodern era has passed, this book examines the different conceptions of postmodernism and posits a meaningful definition, one which can provide the foundation for future literary expression. This theory is then applied to genre fiction, particularly detective fiction and science fiction, demonstrating that postmodernism is found in the structure, rather than questions posed about literary expression. Finally, Matthias Stephan considers post-postmodern movements, and how they can be expressed given this definition of literary postmodernism, moving forward to the twenty-first century.

Authorships Wake

Author : Philip Sayers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2020-12-10
ISBN : 1501367684
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (367 Download)

Download PDF Authorships Wake Book by Philip Sayers Full eBook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorship's Wake examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of the author, epitomized by Roland Barthes's essay, The Death of the Author. This critique has given rise to a body of writing that confounds generic distinctions separating the literary and the theoretical. Its archive consists of texts by writers who either directly participated in this critique, as Barthes did, or whose intellectual formation took place in its immediate aftermath. These writers include some who are known primarily as theorists (Judith Butler), others known primarily as novelists (Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace), and yet others whose texts are difficult to categorize (the autofiction of Chris Kraus, Sheila Heti, and Ben Lerner; the autotheory of Maggie Nelson). These writers share not only a central motivating question how to move beyond the critique of the author-subject but also a way of answering it: by writing texts that merge theoretical concerns with literary discourse. Authorship's Wake traces the responses their work offers in relation to four themes: communication, intention, agency, and labor.

New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature

Author : Casey Michael Henry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-02-07
ISBN : 1350064971
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (64 Download)

Download PDF New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature Book by Casey Michael Henry Full eBook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodernism and its aftermath, from William Gaddis's J R and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho through to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through these histories, the book charts the ways in which print-based postmodern writing at first resisted new mass media forms and ultimately came to respond to them.

Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era

Author : Ryan M. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-05-31
ISBN : 1316519813
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (519 Download)

Download PDF Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era Book by Ryan M. Brooks Full eBook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.

Literature after Postmodernism

Author : I. Huber
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2014-06-10
ISBN : 1137429917
Pages : 291 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (429 Download)

Download PDF Literature after Postmodernism Book by I. Huber Full eBook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature after Postmodernism explores the use of literary fantastic storylines in contemporary novels which begin to think beyond postmodernism. They develop an aesthetic perspective that aims at creation and communication instead of subversion and can thus be considered no longer deconstructive but reconstructive.

Contemporary Perspectives on Language, Culture and Identity in Anglo-American Contexts

Author : Éva Antal
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-09-23
ISBN : 1527540308
Pages : 399 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (54 Download)

Download PDF Contemporary Perspectives on Language, Culture and Identity in Anglo-American Contexts Book by Éva Antal Full eBook and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays highlights the great variety one finds in contemporary scholarly discourse in the fields of English and American studies and English linguistics in a broad and inclusive way. It is divided into thematically structured sections, the first two of which examine the motif of travelling and images of recollection in literary works, while the third and the fourth parts deal with male and female voices in narratives. Another chapter discusses visual and textual representations of history. The last two subsections focus on the rhetorical and theoretical questions of language. The pluralism of themes indicated in the book’s title can thus be regarded not as a limitation, but, rather, as evidence of its potential.

After Postmodernism

Author : Christopher K. Coffman
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-17
ISBN : 100028901X
Pages : 150 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (289 Download)

Download PDF After Postmodernism Book by Christopher K. Coffman Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several of American literature’s most prominent authors, and many of their most perceptive critics and reviewers, argue that fiction of the last quarter century has turned away from the tendencies of postmodernist writing. Yet, the nature of that turn, and the defining qualities of American fiction after postmodernism, remain less than clear. This volume identifies four prominent trends of the contemporary scene: the recovery of the real, a rethinking of historical engagement, a preoccupation with materiality, and a turn to the planetary. Readings of works by various leading figures, including Dave Eggers, Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes, Lance Olsen, Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace, support a variety of arguments about this recent revitalization of American literature. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Textual Practice.

Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes]

Author : Linda De Roche
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2021-06-30
ISBN : 1440853592
Pages : 1348 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (853 Download)

Download PDF Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] Book by Linda De Roche Full eBook and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research. Covers significant authors, as well as those neglected by history, and their works from major historical and cultural periods of the last century, including authors writing today Situates authors' works not only within their own canon but also with the historical and cultural context of the U.S. more broadly Positions primary documents after specific authors or works, allowing readers to read excerpts critically in light of the entries Examines literary movements, forms, and genres that also pay special attention to multi-ethnic and women writers

Postmodern/Postwar and After

Author : Jason Gladstone
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2016-07
ISBN : 160938427X
Pages : 273 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (384 Download)

Download PDF Postmodern/Postwar and After Book by Jason Gladstone Full eBook and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have redefined the field. Postmodern/Postwar—and After aims to be a field-defining book—a sourcebook for the new and emerging critical terrain—that explores the postmodern/postwar period and what comes after. The first section of essays returns to the category of the “post-modern” and argues for the usefulness of key concepts and themes from postmodernism to the study of contemporary literature, or reevaluates postmodernism in light of recent developments in the field and historical and economic changes in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These essays take the contemporary abandonments of postmodernism as an occasion to assess the current states of postmodernity. After that, the essays move to address the critical shift away from postmodernism as a description of the present, and toward a new sense of postmodernism as just one category among many that scholars can use to describe the recent past. The final section looks forward and explores the question of what comes after the postwar/postmodern. Taken together, these essays from leading and emerging scholars on the state of twenty-first-century literary studies provide a number of frameworks for approaching contemporary literature as influenced by, yet distinct from, postmodernism. The result is an indispensable guide that seeks to represent and understand the major overhauling of postwar American literary studies that is currently underway.

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction

Author : Daniel O'Gorman
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-01-15
ISBN : 1134743777
Pages : 462 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (743 Download)

Download PDF The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction Book by Daniel O'Gorman Full eBook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How do we track cultural shifts and changes? The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction takes on this challenge, mapping key literary trends from the year 2000 onwards, as the landscape of our century continues to take shape around us. A significant and central intervention into contemporary literature, this Companion offers essential coverage of writers who have risen to prominence since then, such as Hari Kunzru, Jennifer Egan, David Mitchell, Jonathan Lethem, Ali Smith, A. L. Kennedy, Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson, and Colson Whitehead. Thirty-eight essays by leading and emerging international scholars cover topics such as: • Identity, including race, sexuality, class, and religion in the twenty-first century; • The impact of technology, terrorism, activism, and the global economy on the modern world and modern literature; • The form and format of twenty-first century literary fiction, including analysis of established genres such as the pastoral, graphic novels, and comedic writing, and how these have been adapted in recent years. Accessible to experts, students, and general readers, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of the field. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of contemporary literature.

The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace

Author : Clare Hayes-Brady
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2016-02-25
ISBN : 1501313541
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (313 Download)

Download PDF The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace Book by Clare Hayes-Brady Full eBook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America. She argues that Wallace's work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism. Situating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.

Timelines of American Literature

Author : Cody Marrs
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-29
ISBN : 1421427133
Pages : 360 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (427 Download)

Download PDF Timelines of American Literature Book by Cody Marrs Full eBook and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is our definition of "modernismif we imagine it stretching from 1865 to 1965 instead of 1890 to 1945? How does the captivity narrative change when we consider it as a contemporary, not just a "colonial,genre? What does the course of American literature look like set against the backdrop of federal denials of Native sovereignty or housing policies that exacerbated segregation? Filled with challenges to scholars, inspirations for teachers (anchored by an appendix of syllabi), and entry points for students, Timelines of American Literature gathers some of the most exciting new work in the field to showcase the revelatory potential of fresh thinking about how we organize the literary past.

Are We Postmodern Yet?

Author : Reinhold Kramer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-08
ISBN : 3030305694
Pages : 328 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (35 Download)

Download PDF Are We Postmodern Yet? Book by Reinhold Kramer Full eBook and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Reinhold Kramer explores a variety of important social changes, including the resistance to objective measures of truth, the rise of “How-I-Feel” ethics, the ascendancy of individualism, the immersion in cyber-simulations, the push toward globalization and multilateralism, and the decline of political and religious faiths. He argues that the displacement, since the 1990s, of grand narratives by ego-based narratives and small narratives has proven inadequate, and that selective adherence, pluralist adaptation, and humanism are more worthy replacements. Relying on evolutionary psychology as much as on Charles Taylor, Kramer argues that no single answer is possible to the book title’s question, but that the term “postmodernity” – referring to the era, not to postmodernism – still usefully describes major currents within the contemporary world.

Rewriting Early America

Author : Christopher K. Coffman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-11-27
ISBN : 1611462568
Pages : 186 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (462 Download)

Download PDF Rewriting Early America Book by Christopher K. Coffman Full eBook and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting Early America argues the need for a subtler understanding of how post-1945 literary figures represent America’s prenational past. Rather than focusing only on how literary representations of the national origins advance political critiques, this book also recognizes the recuperative visions founds in many recent novels and poems.