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Epimodernism: Six Memos for Literature Today

Epimodernism: Six Memos for Literature Today

Bouju, Emmanuel

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 3031099230
ISBN13: 9783031099236
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Mar 31 2023
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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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