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Flat aesthetics : twenty-first-century American fiction and the making of the contemporary by Christian Moraru; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Flat Aesthetics seeks to secure a more granular and ontologically demotic handle on the contemporary in American literature. While contemporaneity can be viewed as "our" period, Christian Moraru approaches the contemporary as some-thing made by things themselves. The making of the contemporary is variously restaged by the body of fictional prose under scrutiny here. Thus, this corpus itself participates in the making of contemporaneity. In dialogue with object-oriented ontology and various new materialisms, Moraru contends that the contemporary does not preexist objects or the novels featuring them; it is not their background but an outcome of things' self-presentation. As objects, beings, or existents present themselves in the present, in our "now," they foster thing-configurations that together compose the form of, and essentially make, the contemporary - the present's cultural-material signature, as Moraru calls it. To decipher this signature, Flat Aesthetics provides a cross-sectional reading of postmillennial American fiction. Discussed are solely post-2000 works by writers who have also established themselves over the past two decades or so, from Nicole Krauss, Michael C

Who reads Flat aesthetics : twenty-first-century American fiction and the making of the contemporary?

Author

Christian Moraru;

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501355264

Category

nonfiction