Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

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English | ASIN : B0CS4N3BKJ | 2024 | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Theorizes the development of a minimalist mode in American fiction since 1970, frequently seen to interrogate US postmodernity.

Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020 responds to existing studies of literary minimalism by pursuing three original and interrelated objectives. It provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the mode. It also exposes the presence of minimalism beyond critical demarcations that attempt to limit the aesthetic to a particular school, medium, movement, form or decade. Finally, it argues that writers of American literary minimalism are uniquely privileged in their ability to formalize precarity and threatening cultural currents into the fragile construct that is ordinary life.
Building upon theories of affect and the everyday,
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