Literature after Postmodernism: Reconstructive Fantasies

✍ Scribed by Irmtraud Huber (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 299
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Epitaph on a Ghost, or the Impossible End of Postmodernism....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Post-post, Beyond and Back: Literature in the Wake of Postmodernism....Pages 21-50
Pragmatic Fantasies: From Subversion to Reconstruction....Pages 51-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Leaving the Postmodernist Labyrinth: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves ....Pages 79-112
The Quest for Narrative Reconstruction: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated ....Pages 113-147
Escaping Towards History: Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ....Pages 148-180
Dreaming of Reconstruction: David Mitchell’s number9dream ....Pages 181-214
Conclusion: The Coming of Age of Reconstruction....Pages 215-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-291

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Twentieth-Century Literature; British and Irish Literature; Postmodern Philosophy; Literary History

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