Literary Manifestations of Metamodernism : Contemporary English-Language Fiction / edited by Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sawa, Magdalena, editor.

Teske, Joanna Klara, editor.

Series:

Studies in Metamodernism: Theory and Criticism across the Disciplines.

Studies in Metamodernism: Theory and Criticism across the Disciplines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Modernism (Literature).

Post-postmodernism (Literature).

Genre:

Essays

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

A collection of literary essays investigating how diverse aspects of metamodernism manifest in 21st century English-language fiction. Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske analyze how various theories of metamodernism apply to fiction and how close readings of contemporary fiction encourage readers to critically engage with this cultural phenomena. Beginning with an introduction to the key aspects of metamodernism, this collection examines postmodernism, postcolonialism, and ecology through a metamodernist lens while observing metamodernist attitudes toward human experience, sensibility, and the use of antimimetic narrative strategies. Literary Manifestations of Metamodernism allows for a new appreciation of various aspects of contemporary fiction – such as its thematics (e.g. the real, ecology, ethical concern with social justice and care) and its form (e.g. use of magic realism, complex narrative structure, autofiction)–while reinforcing metamodernism as a promising phenomenon that takes advantage of postmodern heritage while surpassing it to explore the responsibility humans bear for socially-constructed reality.

Contents:

Notes on Contributors Preface Metamodernism and Other Construals of Contemporary Fiction: Introduction Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) 1. Joseph Knight: Metamodern Historicity and a Grand Narrative of Justice Catriona Weiser (University of Vienna, Austria) 2. Discovering, Recovering and Repairing the Past: Caring as Redemption in Peter Carey’s A Long Way From Home Barbara Klonowska (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) 3. Metamodernist Sensibility Vis-à-Vis the Problem of Evil in Ali Smith’s Spring Joanna Klara Teske (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) 4. “How Good It Felt, Doing This Together!”: Metamodern Relationality in George Saunders’s Lincoln in The Bardo Sara Villamarín-Freire (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) 5. Myth, Ecology and a Metamodern Aesth-Ethical Sensibility in Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron Sona Šnircová (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Slovakia) 6. Here and Not Now: Ledfeather’s Temporal Virtuality and the Conditions of Realism Nathan D. Frank (The Covenant School, USA) 7. Sally Rooney’s Heroine: Wavering between Experience and Abstract Theories Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany) 8. Jasper Fforde’s Metamodernism­­—Meta-Storying in the Thursday Next Series Danica Stojanovic-Schaffrath (University of Graz, Austria) 9. (Im)Possible Reparations: Metamodernism, Postcolonialism and Damon Galgut’s The Promise Sofia Kostelac (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) 10. Constructing Literary “Metamodernism”: On Telling Silences, Cryptic Periods, and Sock Puppets Mary K. Holland (State University of New York at New Paltz, USA) 11. Metamodernism for the Masses Steve Tomasula (University of Notre Dame, USA) Conclusion Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)

ISBN:

9798216372660

9798216372646

OCLC:

1597484112