The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream
The following essay seeks to examine literary texts of the 21st century that precedes an era of postmodernism in what can arguably be labelled post- postmodernism. In studying the experimental works of David Mitchell, post-postmodernism is suggested to take on a notion of totality and globality in t...
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| author | Lai, Zaneta Zhi Yan |
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| description | The following essay seeks to examine literary texts of the 21st century that precedes an era of postmodernism in what can arguably be labelled post- postmodernism. In studying the experimental works of David Mitchell, post-postmodernism is suggested to take on a notion of totality and globality in the great wake of postmodern traits such as fragmentation and a destabilized reality. Postmodernism has been defined as an “incredulity towards metanarratives” (Lyotard 25). In challenging such metanarratives, post- postmodernism seeks to further question if a new Metanarrative with a capital M can ever be defined, within the encapsulation of intertextuality. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1596642022-07-03T20:10:41Z The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream Lai, Zaneta Zhi Yan Neil Murphy School of Humanities CAMurphy@ntu.edu.sg Humanities::Literature The following essay seeks to examine literary texts of the 21st century that precedes an era of postmodernism in what can arguably be labelled post- postmodernism. In studying the experimental works of David Mitchell, post-postmodernism is suggested to take on a notion of totality and globality in the great wake of postmodern traits such as fragmentation and a destabilized reality. Postmodernism has been defined as an “incredulity towards metanarratives” (Lyotard 25). In challenging such metanarratives, post- postmodernism seeks to further question if a new Metanarrative with a capital M can ever be defined, within the encapsulation of intertextuality. 2022-06-29T01:16:05Z 2022-06-29T01:16:05Z 2018 Student Research Paper Lai, Z. Z. Y. (2018). The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream. Student Research Paper, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159664 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159664 en © 2018 The Author(s). application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
| spellingShingle | Humanities::Literature Lai, Zaneta Zhi Yan The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream |
| title | The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream |
| title_full | The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream |
| title_short | The start of an inquisition into post-postmodernism: observations from reading David Mitchell's Number9Dream |
| title_sort | start of an inquisition into post postmodernism observations from reading david mitchell s number9dream |
| topic | Humanities::Literature |
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