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OverviewWhat comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective is now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature. The book thus examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge into reality. Faced with a reality in a permanent state of exception, Pynchon and Bolaño react to the excesses and distortions of the modern age with a new poetic and aesthetic paradigm that rejects both the naive illusion of a return to the real and the self-enclosed artificiality of classical postmodern writing: hyperbolic realism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Samir Sellami (Independent Scholar, Germany)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA ISBN: 9781501360497ISBN 10: 1501360493 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 08 February 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. Realism on an Expanded Canvas 2. Notes on Hyperbole Part II 3. The Maximalist Novel: Lovers & Haters 4. Anthropophagic Intertextuality 5. The Visible and the Invisible 6. Flat Fictionality 7. Sed Tamen Effabor 8. Ekphrasis Beyond Imagination Part III 9. Slow Adventures 10. The Labor of Figuration Epilogue: A Fifth Concept of Reality References IndexReviewsSamir Sellami writes with brilliant clarity and makes difficult arguments easy to follow. Philosophers and critical theorists should study his techniques. * Kathryn Hume, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor Emerita of English, Pennsylvania State University, USA * Author InformationSamir Sellami is a literary critic from Berlin, Germany, and founding editor of the Berlin Review. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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