Wolfgang Funk, The Literature of Reconstruction: Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium

In The Literature of Reconstruction: Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium, Wolfgang Funkreads the literary landscape after postmodernism through the interrelated concepts of authenticity, meta-reference and reconstruction. These terms, he argues, can help make sense of how fiction post-1990 has...

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Glavni autor: Dini, Rachele
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Izdano: European journal of American studies 2022
Online pristup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sažetak:In The Literature of Reconstruction: Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium, Wolfgang Funkreads the literary landscape after postmodernism through the interrelated concepts of authenticity, meta-reference and reconstruction. These terms, he argues, can help make sense of how fiction post-1990 has “renegotiate[d] the relationship between experience and its representation in an attempt to truthfully re-enact experience through representation” (1, emphasis added). Funk is thus concerned to bot...