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The literature of reconstruction : authentic fiction in the new millennium /

"The Literature of Reconstruction argues for the term and concept of 'postmillennial reconstruction' to fill the gap left by the decline of postmodernism and deconstruction as useful cultural and literary categories. Wolfgang Funk shows how this notion emerges from the theoretical and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Funk, Wolfgang (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Subjects:
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Post-postmodernism (Literature)
Literature > Aesthetics.
Narration (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American fiction.
English fiction.
2000 - 2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
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  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1) Postmodernism's Wake: From Deconstruction to Reconstruction
  • 2) "To thine own self be true": Eight Theses on Authenticity
  • Thesis One: It is impossible to clearly define authenticity
  • Thesis Two: The History of Authenticity is a History of Loss
  • Thesis Three: Authenticity both presupposes and generates a notion of self
  • Thesis Four: Authenticity is both the antithesis to postmodern simulation and the ultimate simulacrum itself
  • Thesis Five: Recent media transformations necessitate a rethinking of authenticity
  • Thesis Six: Authenticity is an emergent phenomenon
  • Thesis Seven: Authenticity functions as a black box which sublates discursivedichotomies
  • Thesis Eight: Metareference constitutes an appropriate formal approach to authenticity
  • 3) Holding the Mirror up to Fiction: Metareference in Art
  • The Truth and Nothing But: Does Realism Still Matter?
  • A Framework for Reconstruction: The Metareferential Turn
  • Essentially Strange Loops: Metareference as Tangled Hierarchy
  • 4) From Innocence to Ignorance: Julian Barnes's England, England
  • 5) Reconstructing the Author: Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
  • 6) Reconstructing Literary Influence: Jasper Fforde's Thursday-Next Series
  • Revisitations and Revisions: The Eyre Affair
  • Inside Literature: Reconstructing Thursday Next
  • 7) Reconstructing Narration: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad and Julian Barnes'sThe Sense of an Ending
  • Narrative Assemblage: Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad
  • Implicit Narrative: Julian Barnes's The Sense of an Ending
  • 8) Remainder
  • References
  • Index.