Literature after Postmodernism [electronic resource] : Reconstructive Fantasies /
Huber, I.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 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 & Clay
6 Dreaming of Reconstruction: David Mitchell''s number9dreamConclusion: The Coming of Age of Reconstruction; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Danielewski, Mark Z.
Chabon, Michael.
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Mitchell, David (David Stephen).
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
British literature.
Postmodernism.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Postmodern Philosophy.
Literary History.