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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 b...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137429902. |
| Carrier Form: | 304 p. |
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| CLC: | I11 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Epitaph on a Ghost, or the Impossible End of Postmodernism PART I: TRACING SHIFTS 1. Post-post, Beyond and Back: Literature in the Wake of Postmodernism 2. Pragmatic Fantasies: From Subversion to Reconstruction PART II: RECONSTRUCTIVE READINGS 3. Leaving the Postmodernist Labyrinth: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves 4. The Quest for Narrative Reconstruction: Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated 5. Escaping Towards History: Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 6. Dreaming of Reconstruction: David Mitchell's number9dream Conclusion: The Com |