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 …

This article contends that popular acceptance of Anthropogenic climate change in early
2000s Britain coincided with cultural efforts to redefine the historical present via …

Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali
Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative …

This article argues that Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun (2021) represents an attempt to
synthesize modernist and postmodernist conceptions of surface and depth in a positive way …

Теория современного искусства, очень активная в конце 1970—начале 1990-х гг., после
долгого перерыва разродилась понятием «метамодернизм», которое авторы …

Landscapes are never really just there. As cultural representations spread throughout a
wide range of practices, they constitute repositories of knowledge and ideologies. African …

Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives Page 1 Fact and Fiction in Contemporary
Narratives This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in …

This article discusses the third instalment of Ali Smith's Seasonal Quartet, a work whose
complex multi-voiced narrative addresses various important issues including the role of art …

Since the turn of the millennium, a growing number of scholars and critics have documented
a post-postmodern ethos in cultural aesthetics. An important contributor to the study of this …

This article analyses the tension between the perception and performance of affect in two
contemporary texts: Heather Christle's The Crying Book (2019) and Christine Smallwood's …