New York, New York ; London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2020]
2020
Physical Details
1 online resource (247 pages)
ISBNs
9781501362613, 9781501362637, 9781501362613
OCLC
on1153077245
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface : The Problem of "Realism" -- Introduction: A Brief History of Realisms -- 1. Metafictive Realism: David Foster Wallace and the Future of (Meta) Fiction -- 2. The Work of Art after the Mechanical Age: Materiality, Narrative, and the Real in the Fiction of Steve Tomasula -- 3. Material Realism and New Materialism in Literature from the 1990s to the Present -- 4. Quantum Realism: On Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- 5. Quantum Realism Case Study: Don DeLillo's The Body Artist -- Conclusion: Realism and Periodizing after Postmodernism