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

ISBN-13: 9780367074890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 134 str.

Danuta Fjellestad; David Watson

Opis

The Futures of the Present: New Directions in (American) Literature seeks to map the future of the American novel by identifying emergent trends within its form and content. It engages with such issues as the impact of new media, the rise of environmental fiction, the nonhuman turn, and other social and aesthetic developments that shape the future of literature. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studia Neophilologica.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Futures of American Literature  1. Minds, Messages, and the Moral Imagination in the Media of Fiction: Inanimate Alice between Cognitive and Rhetorical Paradigms  2. "Take that you intellectuals!" and "kaPOW!": Adam Thirlwell and the Metamodernist Future of Style  3. The Paradoxes of "Unnatural" Mimesis in Gordon Sheppard’s HA!  4. Utopia, Sort of: A Case Study in Metamodernism  5. Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, the Anthropocene, and the Scales of Literature  6. The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel  7. A Sociological Imagination  8. The Role of Place in the Post-Apocalypse: Contrasting The Road and World War Z  9. Walking as a Metaphor for Narrativity