Title: Literature After Postmodernism Reconstructive Fantasies
Description: "Postmodernism, deconstruction and subversion have been the buzzwords of the last few decades. But not any longer. Ever since the end of the millennium an increasingly perceptible desire to turn towards other concerns can be noted. Only, what comes after postmodernism? Where are we going now? Irmtraud Huber suggests some answers to these questions, focusing on novels by Michael Chabon, Mark Z. Danielewski, Jonathan Safran Foer and David Mitchell and highlighting the ways in which they go beyond postmodernism and turn from deconstruction to reconstruction. Approaching the question from an unusual direction by exploring the novelists' particular use of the fantastic mode, this book offers both further insights into the present aesthetic shift and a new perspective on the literary fantastic"--
Subjects: Postmodernism (literature), American Experimental fiction, History and criticism, English Experimental fiction, Post-postmodernism (Literature), American fiction, English fiction, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, British literature, Culture, Study and teaching, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, English, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900, Literature, Philosophy, Modern Literature