Literature after Postmodernism: Reconstructive Fantasies

by I. Huber

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349491971
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Irmtraud Huber is a Lecturer in Modern English Literature at the University of Berne, Switzerland. She did research as a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, and her work was awarded the Helene-Richter-Prize by the Deutscher Anglistenverband.

Table of 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 Coming of Age of Reconstruction Bibliography Notes Index