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Metamodernism : historicity, affect and depth after post-modernism / edited by Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons and Timotheus Vermeulen.

Contributor(s): Series: Radical cultural studies | Radical cultural studiesPublisher: London, England ; New York, New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017Description: xiii, 245 pages : illustrations, tables ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9781783489619
  • 9781783489626
  • 9781783489602
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Contents:
Periodising the 2000s, or, the Emergence of Metamodernism / Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen
SECTION I: HISTORICITY i. Metamodern Historicity Robin van den Akker -- The Metamodern, the Quirky and Film Criticism / James MacDowell -- Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Rise of Historioplastic Metafiction / Josh Toth -- Super-Hybridity: Non-Simultaneity, Myth-Making and Multipolar Conflict / Jörg Heiser -- The Cosmic Artisan: Mannerist Virtuosity and Contemporary Crafts / Sjoerd van Tuinen
SECTION II: Affect ii. Metamodern Affect / Alison Gibbons -- Four Faces of Postirony / Lee Konstantinou -- Radical Defenselessness: A New Sense of Self in the Work of David Foster Wallace / Nicoline Timmer -- Contemporary Autofiction and Metamodern Affect / Alison Gibbons -- The Joke That Wasn't Funny Anymore: Reflections on the Metamodern Sitcom / Gry C. Rustad and Kai Hanno Schwind
SECTION III: DEPTH iii. Metamodern Depth, or 'Depthiness' / Timotheus Vermeulen -- Reconstructing Depth: Authentic Fiction and Responsibility / Irmtraud Huber and Wolfgang Funk -- Between Truth, Sincerity and Satire: Post-Truth Politics and the Rhetoric of Authenticity / Sam Browse -- Notes on Performatist Photography: Experiencing Beauty and Transcendence after Postmodernism / Raoul Eshelman
EPILOGUE Thoughts on Writing about Art after Postmodernism / James Elkins
Summary: Brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Periodising the 2000s, or, the Emergence of Metamodernism / Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen

SECTION I: HISTORICITY i. Metamodern Historicity Robin van den Akker -- The Metamodern, the Quirky and Film Criticism / James MacDowell -- Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Rise of Historioplastic Metafiction / Josh Toth -- Super-Hybridity: Non-Simultaneity, Myth-Making and Multipolar Conflict / Jörg Heiser -- The Cosmic Artisan: Mannerist Virtuosity and Contemporary Crafts / Sjoerd van Tuinen

SECTION II: Affect ii. Metamodern Affect / Alison Gibbons -- Four Faces of Postirony / Lee Konstantinou -- Radical Defenselessness: A New Sense of Self in the Work of David Foster Wallace / Nicoline Timmer -- Contemporary Autofiction and Metamodern Affect / Alison Gibbons -- The Joke That Wasn't Funny Anymore: Reflections on the Metamodern Sitcom / Gry C. Rustad and Kai Hanno Schwind

SECTION III: DEPTH iii. Metamodern Depth, or 'Depthiness' / Timotheus Vermeulen -- Reconstructing Depth: Authentic Fiction and Responsibility / Irmtraud Huber and Wolfgang Funk -- Between Truth, Sincerity and Satire: Post-Truth Politics and the Rhetoric of Authenticity / Sam Browse -- Notes on Performatist Photography: Experiencing Beauty and Transcendence after Postmodernism / Raoul Eshelman

EPILOGUE Thoughts on Writing about Art after Postmodernism / James Elkins

Brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture.

Description based on print version record.