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Issue 10.1 - Special Conference Issue "What Happens Now? 2021" Previous Issues

Alluvium Editorial 10.1

This special issue is dedicated to papers presented at the biennial BACLS “What Happens Now?” Conference that took place on 2-3 September 2021. The conference focused on representing a variety of concerns and topics represented in contemporary literature studies, and these are reflected in the articles published in this issue: they address the intersections between literary studies, video games and television series, pertinent questions of representation and identity in contemporary literature, as well as exploring the political and social formations of the present through critical and creative methods.

Issue 10.1 - Special Conference Issue "What Happens Now? 2021" Previous Issues

“New year, new data”: Percival Everett’s Telephone, Brandon Taylor’s Real Life, and the Future of the “Affective Turn”

George Kowalik April 29, 2022 No Comments affective turn Choose Your Own Adventure post-postmodernism STEM research

This article will consider Rachel Greenwald Smith’s concept of the “Affective Turn” – which “chronologically coincides with the end of the postmodernism debates” (Smith, 424) – through the lens of two American novels published in 2020: Percival Everett’s Telephone and Brandon Taylor’s Real Life. Stylistically, these novels are quite different, and I will discuss them individually as well as unpack their similarities, examining their mutual relevance to contemporary fiction’s affective renewal.

Issue 1.3 Previous Issues

Still Here: Post-Millennial Metafiction and Crypto-Didacticism

Martin Paul Eve August 1, 2012 3 Comments 2666 American literature Ciudad Juarez crypto-didacticism David Foster Wallace Don DeLillo E Unibus Pluram ethics Falling Man fiction Gravity's Rainbow historiographic metafiction Inherent Vice Linda Hutcheon literary criticism Mason & Dixon Patricia Waugh Point Omega post-postmodernism postmodernism Ratner's Star Roberto Bolano Running Dog simulacrum simulation The Body Artist the New Sincerity The Pale King Thomas Pynchon Underworld White Noise

In 1993, David Foster Wallace published an essay piece entitled “E Unibus Pluram” in which he outlined his belief that fiction should move away from the ‘critical and destructive’ postmodern irony that he saw as…