1st Edition
The Futures of the Present: New Directions in (American) Literature
Introduction: The Futures of American Literature Danuta Fjellestad and David Watson
1. Minds, Messages, and the Moral Imagination in the Media of Fiction: Inanimate Alice between Cognitive and Rhetorical Paradigms John David Zuern
2. "Take that you intellectuals!" and "kaPOW!": Adam Thirlwell and the Metamodernist Future of Style Alison Gibbons
3. The Paradoxes of "Unnatural" Mimesis in Gordon Sheppard’s HA! Danuta Fjellestad
4. Utopia, Sort of: A Case Study in Metamodernism Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker
5. Don DeLillo’s Point Omega, the Anthropocene, and the Scales of Literature Pieter Vermeulen
6. The Space of Genre in the New Green Novel Caren Irr
7. A Sociological Imagination Susan Hegeman
8. The Role of Place in the Post-Apocalypse: Contrasting The Road and World War Z Petter Skult
9. Walking as a Metaphor for Narrativity Marina Ludwigs
Biography
Danuta Fjellestad is Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is primarily interested in the experimental American novel of the 20th and 21st centuries.
David Watson is Associate Professor of English at Uppsala University, Sweden. He works on contemporary and nineteenth-century American fiction.
