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Strunk, Trevor.

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The New What's Next: Innovation and Failure in Contemporary American Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The New What's Next: Innovation and Failure in Contemporary American Literature./
Author:	Strunk, Trevor.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	165 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-05A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10708499
ISBN:	9780355459715

The New What's Next: Innovation and Failure in Contemporary American Literature.
Strunk, Trevor.

The New What's Next: Innovation and Failure in Contemporary American Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 165 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2017.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

My research suggests that American literature from the 1970s to today is deeply concerned with a representation of social and cultural upheaval, and argues that it figures this concern through aesthetic failure, particularly the failure to formally represent the totality of late capitalist America. The literature I consider -- including works by Kathy Acker, Cormac McCarthy, Willian Gaddis, Vanessa Place, and others -- responds to contemporary crises, particularly the financial unrest that begins in the 1970s and 80s and resonates to today. These authors' works conceive of this "neoliberal" or, as I would call it, late capitalist crisis not indexically, in ways that register at the level of content, but rather at the level of form. I call this literature innovative because it attempts to represent the totality of the world in crisis through new, experimental formal strategies. But when innovative literature attempts to model new ways of representing social or political totality, it fails due to the aesthetic logic of constraint by which it is defined, either through misinterpretation, formal incongruity, or the intrusion of narrative subjectivity into the aesthetic.

ISBN: 9780355459715Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

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