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Epimodernism - Six Memos for Literature Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Epimodernism - Six Memos for Literature Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era of
epimodernism? Reinterpreting the six "memos" that Italo Calvino
suggested more than thirty years ago for "the new Millennium", in
this acclaimed book Emmanuel Bouju identifies six new values for
literature in the twenty-first century: Superficiality, Secrecy,
Energy, Acceleration, Credit, and Follow Through. Based on the
principal meanings of the Ancient Greek prefix epi - surface,
contact, origin, extension, duration, authority, and finality -
these values represent six different ways of relating to the legacy
of modernist utopias, reorienting postmodern critique and
rebooting, with all due irony, its various forms of engagement and
empowerment. Equal parts cultural criticism and literary creation,
this highly original essay both enacts and explores the epimodern
turn in contemporary European literature. Rigorous and humorous,
provocative and playful, Epimodernism helps us to understand what
literature can describe, imagine, and invent in our challenging
times.
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