Date of Award
5-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department/Program
English
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Laura Nicosia
Committee Member
Janet Cutler
Committee Member
Alexios Lykidis
Abstract
This thesis explores the criticism of and attempts to move beyond postmodernism in three contemporary American novels. Jonathan Safran Foer in Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close offers a view in which shared experience, and specifically traumatic experience, necessitates the creation of metanarrative communities. Chuck Palahniuk in Fight Club navigates the difficulty of addressing postmodern concerns without accepting the conclusions of postmodern thinkers. Karen Tei Yamashita in Tropic o f Orange posits an ever expanding world which can only be truly understood through metanarrative.
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Recommended Citation
Teixeira, Christopher Aleixo, "Dynamic Future : Movements Beyond Postmodernism in Three Contemporary American Novels" (2015). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 641.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/641