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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Metamodern"”.
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Metamodern Satire in Contemporary American Literature and Television
… Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker posited metamodernism, a movement that, at its heart, is the negotiation between the conflicting objectives of postmodernism and resurgent modernism. Applying this process to the genre of satire, this project proposes a hybrid mode—metamodern satire—that …
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The Anatomy of Disgust and the Sublime in Metamodern Painting
<p>The works in this series explore the application of Platonic binary oppositions of life/death and attraction/repulsion using Renaissance painting techniques that include the application of solvent and linseed oil glazes, as well as Galkyd Lite and MSA Gel, to assist in the realistic replication …
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Metaformal Trends in Contemporary American Poetry
… Chapter Two connects metaformalism to the metamodern—a concept which Timotheus Vermeulen and Robin van den Akker (2010) propose as the successor to post-modernity—identifying three additional metaformal strategies in the poetry of Ben Lerner: the development of formal personae, shifting …
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Safe Space: A novel and accompanying critical study into the participatory culture in fandom and a historiographic approach to the fragmentation of popular culture in select novels by Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
… The study is anchored by the novel Safe Space, a metamodern science fiction novel that explores the tension between progressive and orthodox ideologies within Anglo-American science fiction fandom – a symbolic battle in the Culture Wars.<br/><br/>The investigation uses a historiographic, long …
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Genres of Parody: Autofiction, Horror, and the Contemporary Novel
… that has evolved to fit what might be called a metamodern moment. This framing is explored through close readings of texts that I assert can be reliably placed in a “middle-of-genre” spectrum: works which neither fully embrace their genre conventions nor overtly advance their boundaries in …
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Re/presentation Of Hip-Hop: An Exploration Of White Hip-Hop Fans, Consumers And Practitioners
<p>Whites make up the majority of hip-hop consumers and participants. However, scholars have created a clear link between hip-hop, the African American community, and African Diaspora. Through ethnographic fieldwork and autoethnography, I explore the intersection of race and hip-hop. With the data …