{"product_id":"9781501351730-truth-and-metafiction-plasticity-and-renewal-in-american-narrative","title":"Toth Professor Or Dr. Josh (Macewan University Canada) - Truth And Metafiction Plasticity And Renewal In American Narrative - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernism with a certain sense of irresponsibility political apathy or outright nihilism. Yet if (as is now widely assumed) postmodernism has finally run its course how might we account for the proliferation of metafictional devices in contemporary narrative media? Does this persistence undermine the claim that postmodernism has passed or has the function of metafiction somehow changed? To answer these questions Josh Toth considers a broad range of recent metafictional texts bywriters such as George Saunders and Jennifer Egan and directors such as Sofia Coppola and Quentin Tarantino. At the same time he traverses a diffuse theoretical landscape: from the rise of various new materialisms (in philosophy) and the turn to affect (in literary criticism) to the seemingly endless efforts to name postmodernism's ostensible successor. Ultimately Toth argues that much contemporary metafiction moves beyond postmodern skepticism to reassert the possibility of making true claims about real things. Capable of combating a post - truth crisis such forms assert or assume a kind of Hegelian plasticity; they actively and persistently confront the trauma of what is infinitely mutable or perpetually other. What is outside or before a given representation is confirmed and endured as that which exceeds the instance of its capture. The truth is thereby renewed; neither denied nor simply assumed it is approached as ethically as possible. Its plasticity is grasped because the grasp the form of its narrative apprehension lets slip.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Truth And Metafiction Plasticity And Renewal In American Narrative\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Toth Professor Or Dr. Josh (Macewan University Canada)\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781501351730\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 264 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 1\/14\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists \u0026amp; Prose Writers","brand":"Toth Professor Or Dr. Josh (Macewan University Canada)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49617635049777,"sku":"IN-G-9781501351730","price":39.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781501351730_781ff34e-c308-4d5c-b194-3e7c5df2655d.jpg?v=1724481753","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781501351730-truth-and-metafiction-plasticity-and-renewal-in-american-narrative","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}