Literature after Postmodernism

1. Introduction: Epitaph on a Ghost, or the Impossible End of Postmodernism
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Part I. Tracing Shifts

2. Post-post, Beyond and Back: Literature in the Wake of Postmodernism
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3. Pragmatic Fantasies: From Subversion to Reconstruction
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Part II. Reconstructive Readings

4. Leaving the Postmodernist Labyrinth: Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves

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5. The Quest for Narrative Reconstruction: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated

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6. Escaping Towards History: Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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7. Dreaming of Reconstruction: David Mitchell’s number9dream

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8. Conclusion: The Coming of Age of Reconstruction
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Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Postmodern Philosophy, Literary History