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GIBBONS, Alison, VERMEULEN, T and VAN DEN AKKER, R (2019). Reality beckons: metamodernist depthiness beyond panfictionality. European Journal of English Studies, 23 (2), 172-189.
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Abstract
It is often argued that postmodernism has been succeeded by a new dominant cultural logic. We conceive of this new logic as metamodernism. Whilst some twenty-first century texts still engage with and utilise postmodernist practices, they put these practices to new use. In this article, we investigate the metamodern usage of the typically postmodernist devices of metatextuality and ontological slippage in two genres: autofiction and true crime documentary. Specifically, we analyse Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being and the Netflix mini-series The Keepers, demonstrating that forms of fictionalisation, metafictionality and ontological blurring between fiction and reality have been repurposed. We argue that, rather than expand the scope of fiction, overriding reality, the metamodernist repurposing of postmodernist textual strategies generates a kind of ‘reality-effect’.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | A Tale for the Time Being; autofiction; metamodernism; panfictionality; reality; Ruth Ozeki; The Keepers; true crime; 2005 Literary Studies; 2002 Cultural Studies |
| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2019.1640426 |
| Page Range: | 172-189 |
| SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic Elements |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Elements |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2019 09:58 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2021 01:18 |
| URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25466 |
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