The Futures of the Present: New Directions in (American) Literature - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367074893 ISBN 13 : 9780367074890

Editeur : Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

It has become a critical commonplace that postmodernism no longer serves as an adequate designation for contemporary literature. But what comes after postmodernism? What are the tendencies and directions within contemporary American literature that promise to shape its future?

The contributions to this book are written in the shadows of 'new media', a turn towards the nonhuman in critical thinking, and a surge in environmental and apocalyptic thought. Engaging with such contemporary debates, the authors map the rapidly changing ecosystem of contemporary literary genres and forms and attend to transformations in the production, reception, and circulation of books. This book takes for granted that American literature does have a future, although whatever this future holds, it is unlikely to be what we expect. At this historical juncture, the American novel seems to carve its future though an engagement with issues at the forefront of our present, thereby ensuring its own ongoing contemporaneity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studia Neophilologica.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Danuta Fjellestad is Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is primarily interested in the experimental American novel of the 20th and 21st centuries.

David Watson is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. He works on contemporary and nineteenth-century American fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367074893
• ISBN 13: 9780367074890
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Fjellestad Danuta, Watson David
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