{"product_id":"do-you-feel-it-too-9789042029309","title":"Do You Feel It Too?","description":"\u003ci\u003eDo You Feel It Too? \u003c\/i\u003eexplores a new sense of self that is becoming manifest in experimental fiction written by a generation of authors who can be considered the ‘heirs’ of the postmodern tradition. It offers a precise, in-depth analysis of a new, post-postmodern direction in fiction writing, and highlights which aspects are most acute in the post-postmodern novel. Most notable is the emphatic expression of feelings and sentiments and a drive toward inter-subjective connection and communication. The self that is presented in these post-postmodern works of fiction can best be characterized as \u003ci\u003erelational\u003c\/i\u003e. To analyze this new sense of self, a new interpretational method is introduced that offers a sophisticated approach to fictional selves combining the insights of post-classical narratology and what is called ‘narrative psychology’.\nClose analyses of three contemporary experimental texts – \u003ci\u003eInfinite Jest \u003c\/i\u003e(1996) by David Foster Wallace, \u003ci\u003eA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius \u003c\/i\u003e(2000) by Dave Eggers, and \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves \u003c\/i\u003e(2000) by Mark Danielewski – provide insight into the typical problems that the self experiences in postmodern cultural contexts. Three such problems or ‘symptoms’ are singled out and analyzed in depth: an inability to choose because of a lack of decision-making tools; a difficulty to situate or appropriate feelings; and a structural need for a ‘we’ (a desire for connectivity and sociality).\nThe critique that can be distilled from these texts, especially on the perceived \u003ci\u003esolipsistic \u003c\/i\u003equality of postmodern experience worlds, runs parallel to developments in recent critical theory. These developments, in fiction and theory both, signal, in the wake of poststructural conceptions of subjectivity, a perhaps much awaited ‘turn to the human’ in our culture at large today.","brand":"Nicoline Timmer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48310614622459,"sku":"9789042029309","price":164.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_c8a32846-3271-421e-9187-f4e9e2d87a89.jpg?v=1780095979","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/do-you-feel-it-too-9789042029309","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}