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  1. "Just the two of us, you and me."
    aesthetics and economics of intimacy in contemporary American fiction
    Author: Eggers, Fabian
    Published: 2023

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
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    RVK Categories: HV 15910
    Subjects: intimacy; New Economic Criticism; New Sincerity; post-Fordism; emotion; postcritique; antimodernism; Intimsphäre <Motiv>; Wirtschaftliche Lage; Ästhetik; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (239 Seiten, Seite 46-66, Seite 36-51)
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    Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, 2023
  2. “Just the two of us, you and me.” ; Aesthetics and Economics of Intimacy in Contemporary American Fiction
    Author: Eggers, Fabian
    Published: 2023

    Joining the field of New Economic Criticism, this dissertation examines a strand of recent American fiction expressing a yearning for intimacy while simultaneously reflecting on the various material circumstances that frustrate its satisfaction.... more

     

    Joining the field of New Economic Criticism, this dissertation examines a strand of recent American fiction expressing a yearning for intimacy while simultaneously reflecting on the various material circumstances that frustrate its satisfaction. Through what this study calls the “aesthetics and economics of intimacy,” a range of contemporary authors distinguish themselves from postmodernism’s playful detachment from the world by deliberating questions of subjectivity, interiority and the difficulty of interpersonal reciprocity with renewed urgency. The selection of David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad, Tao Lin’s Taipei and Barbara Browning’s The Gift is cautiously optimistic about intersubjectivity, it evinces an ethical commitment to earnest exchanges within, and via its readers, through literature. As self-aware fiction ‘after postmodernism,’ these texts negotiate irony (distance) and sincerity (intimacy). They seek to form genuine relations in a post-Fordist society that mandates disintegration and connectivity at once and thus illuminate the contradiction of concealment and disclosure at the heart of reflexive intimacy that, unlike its forerunner romance, demands perpetual attention. By shedding light on how material relations can exacerbate such dilemmas, the examined primary literature brings attention to intimacy’s frequently overlooked economic context. This study employs the analytical tools of New Economic Criticism to contextualize the cultural turn to intimacy—epitomized in literary studies by postcritique—as both symptomatic of reflexive modernization (Beck) and a reaction against economic challenges for literature and literary studies. Given the tangible affinity between the concerned texts’ explicit communicative impetus and sociological discourses on a contemporary capitalistic rhetoric of care, this dissertation analyzes the re-emergence of sincerity both against the backdrop of post-Fordism’s communicative emphasis and intimacy’s discursive history. ...

     
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    Source: BASE Selection for Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    DDC Categories: 800
    Subjects: intimacy; New Economic Criticism; New Sincerity; post-Fordism; emotion; postcritique; antimodernism
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