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Flat aesthetics : twenty-first-century American fiction and the making of the contemporary
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Flat aesthetics : twenty-first-century American fiction and the making of the contemporary / Christian Moraru.
ISBN
9781501355271
1501355279
9798765101117
9781501355288
9781501355264
9781501355295
Publication
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xviii, 268 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"A literary-historical study that deals chiefly with post-1990 American fictional prose and argues that David Foster Wallace's phrase, "après-garde" (the opposite of avant-garde), encapsulates an aesthetic that is applicable to much of the past thirty-odd years of American literature"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Moraru, Christian. Flat aesthetics New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 31, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The new aesthetic, the contemporary, and compositional criticism. Flat aesthetics: things, forms, and exchange regimes
Flat reading: object tangles and criticism without "us"
Contemporaneity, periodization, and the signature of the present
Language. Cap'n crunch, planet of the apes, the kingfishers: Ben Lerner and the uselessness of poetry
Necklaces, novels, backpacks: a post is being formed in Leaving the Atocha Station
Bees, parrot, trains: murder by numbers and "the foulest of crimes" in The final solution
Display. Freighters, snow globes, comics: Mandel's museum of civilization, or survival is insufficient
Photographs, instant coffee, baby octopuses: "mere objecthood," messianic readymades, and the institute of totaled art in 10:04
Exit. Go, dog. go! scuba diving, massage chairs: The dog, X/it-men, and other things that go
Ravann, doors, cell phones: un-telling, "mocking objects," and Hamid's Exit West
Revenant. Copula, ding, assembly: zombies and the body politic
Corsica, dust, skels: the insistence of things and the object of race in Whitehead's Zone one
Kinship. Fish, peacock, ram: Schulz, Blecher, Foer, and Kafka's unknown family
Hilton, suitcase, ein-sof: Forest dark and the machine of Jewish literature
Conclusion: Composing the contemporary.
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