{"product_id":"literary-manifestations-of-metamodernism","title":"Literary Manifestations of Metamodernism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of literary essays investigating how diverse aspects of metamodernism manifest in 21st-century English-language fiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe authors whose essays are collected in the volume analyze how various theories of metamodernism apply to contemporary fiction and thereby encourage readers to critically engage with this cultural phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003eThe collection opens with a discussion of the original construal of metamodernism proposed by Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker and its subsequent development by other theorists, and closes with two polemical essays asking questions about the name and status of the new cultural movement as well as its relation to postmodernism – its direct predecessor.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Manifestations of Metamodernism\u003c\/i\u003e allows for a new appreciation of various aspects of contemporary fiction – such as its thematics (e.g. ethical concern with social justice and care, ecology, the real, the sense of engagement) and its form (e.g. metafiction, complex narrative structure, autofiction, hopeful tone)–while reinforcing metamodernism as a promising phenomenon that takes advantage of postmodern heritage yet surpasses it to explore the responsibility humans bear for socially-constructed reality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57533253681496,"sku":"9798216372639","price":92.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9798216372639.jpg?v=1781784092","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/literary-manifestations-of-metamodernism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}