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From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, ''redemptive hybridism'' - a new way of reading texts full of possibility and genre blending - emerges as a key trajectory for post-postmodernity. Tasha Haines investigates what she calls ''redemptive hybridism'' a tendency in post-postmodern writing characterized by possibility. She suggests that near the 21st century, postmodern elitisme gives way to a reparative blending of high-low forms and genre collaborations for challenging and extending the relationship between writer, written material, and reader. By combining an innovative literary investigation with creative and auto-theoretical strategies, Haines offers valuable new interpretations for texts of ''the modernisms continuum''. Her conversational survey moves among the hybridity of Virginia Woolf, the paratextuality of David Foster Wallace, with Nathalie Sarraute, edouard Leve, Maggie Nelson and more. In reference to Deleuze and Guattari, Hassan, and others, writers are curated for their approach to form, method, and content, evoking and invoking textual hybridity. Haines articulates a new way of viewing works via comparisons and close-ups that exemplify the possibility and genre-blending that is Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing .>
Table des matières
Preface
Introduction: The Enemy Within
Taking Enemies In
This Multivariant Plot
The Vitality of Difference
A Lineage of Wariness and Influence
The Terrible Postmodern Party
Part I: Features of Redemptive Hybridism
1. The Redemptive Textual Body
Etymologies
Umbilical Connection, Author to Text
The Word Made Flesh
2. The Hybrid Middle
Pushing out towards Ends
Sarraute as Middle
Parataxis and the Middle
Time and Unfinishedness
3. Family Traits of Fragmentation
The Fragmented Mind
Constraint, Minimalism, and the Caveat
Vestibule and Fringe
Ethics, Alterity, and the Reader
The Ethical, The Moral, and the Difference
High, Low, High Low, It's Off to Blend We Go
Part II: Figures of Redemptive Hybridism
4. Woolf's Atom; The Image of Hybridity
Begin with the Atom, Virginia Woolf
Saturation in Woolf and Wallace
Mrs. Dalloway as Fertile Ground
Inter-genre Woolf
It Ends Where It Begins, with the Atom
5. Finding a Name for Possibility
Postmodernism, Feminism, and Agency
Finding Names and Building Frames
Call Me[a]taxy: Some Recent Pre-fixes
6. The Pale King's Constellation; Factoids, Ghosts, and Boredom
Tell the Truth, David Foster Wallace
Everyday Ghosts, Souls, & Phantoms
Ambiguity & Contradiction in The Pale King
Boredom: Between Crisis & Epiphany
A Conclusion, of Sorts; This Is Not the End
References
Index
Résumé
From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' – a new way of reading texts full of possibility and genre blending – emerges as a key trajectory for post-postmodernity.
Tasha Haines investigates what she calls 'redemptive hybridism' a tendency in post-postmodern writing characterized by possibility. She suggests that near the 21st century, postmodern élitisme gives way to a reparative blending of high-low forms and genre collaborations for challenging and extending the relationship between writer, written material, and reader.
By combining an innovative literary investigation with creative and auto-theoretical strategies, Haines offers valuable new interpretations for texts of ‘the modernisms continuum’. Her conversational survey moves among the hybridity of Virginia Woolf, the paratextuality of David Foster Wallace, with Nathalie Sarraute, Édouard Levé, Maggie Nelson and more. In reference to Deleuze and Guattari, Hassan, and others, writers are curated for their approach to form, method, and content, evoking and invoking textual hybridity.
Haines articulates a new way of viewing works via comparisons and close-ups that exemplify the possibility and genre-blending that is Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing.
Préface
From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' – a new way of reading texts full of possibility and genre blending – emerges as a key trajectory for post-postmodernity.
