A chapter that offers a typology of four models of postironic literature: Motivated Postmodernism, Credulous Metafiction, the Postironic Bildungsroman, and Relational Art. A few concluding remarks on the relationship of postirony and... more
A chapter that offers a typology of four models of postironic literature: Motivated Postmodernism, Credulous Metafiction, the Postironic Bildungsroman, and Relational Art. A few concluding remarks on the relationship of postirony and neoliberalism.
Recent studies about multimodality in the novel and so-called liberature and fiction making use of visual devices all agree in considering Tristram Shandy as one of the main precursors of experimental writing. This article focuses on the... more
Recent studies about multimodality in the novel and so-called liberature and fiction making use of visual devices all agree in considering Tristram Shandy as one of the main precursors of experimental writing. This article focuses on the use of black and blank pages in contemporary fiction. Four novels are discussed in which the authors have resorted to blank and blank pages: B.S. Johnson's House Mother Normal, Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves, Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
