Literary Manifestations of Metamodernism by Sawa, Magdalena; Teske, Joanna Klara;

Short description:

A collection of literary essays investigating how diverse aspects of metamodernism manifest in 21st century English-language fiction.

Long description:

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.

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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---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 Villamar-n-Freire (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
5. Myth, Ecology and a Metamodern Aesth-Ethical Sensibility in Robbie Arnott's The Rain Heron
Sona Snircov- (Pavol Jozef Saf-rik 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)