Towards A Metamodern Literature

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Towards A Metamodern Literature

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The aims of the thesis are to establish the concept of metamodernism in literature, and to consider its wider applicability within the arts and society generally. The thesis examines the features of metamodernism in light of William Blake’s model of the self, with a focus on two novels written in the second half of the twentieth century. For Blake, the self is a constellation of faculties, among which reason, imagination, and emotions are paramount and interconnected. I propose that an increa...

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Research paper

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Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2014

Creator

Dumitrescu, Alexandra

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/4925

Related subjects

metamodernism / self / emotions / balance / rationality / self realisation / story / re-evaluating traditions / coexistence of paradigms / interconnections / feminine / experience / higher innocence / modernity / postmodernity / dichotomies / Arundhati Roy / Michel Tournier / William Blake / Billy Collins / Jillian Sullivan / Philip Deaver / Gary Forrester / Luce Irigaray / paradigm shift / Seth Abramson / Nietzsche / Rousseau / Stephen Toulmin / Brian McHale / Ihab Hassan / Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe / Gérard Genette / Liviu Petrescu / Mihai Spariosu / Andrei Nemoianu / Matei Calinescu / Andrei Codrescu / Friedrich Nietzsche / JJ Rousseau

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