New Realities of the Contemporary Novel

  • Ofelia AL-GAREEB “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi
Keywords: post-postmodernism, “hysterical realism”, “recherché postmodernism”, the maximalist novel, the multi-faceted realism

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to introduce some of the latest developments in the contemporary novel. In order to attain our goal, we shall proceed to firstly survey the cultural background, namely the (post)postmodernist period, then some tendencies concerning the literary genres, with an emphasis on three of the recent modes/genre – “hysterical realism”, “recherché postmodernism”, and the maximalist novel. In contemporary (literary) reality, the past is revisited, reconsidered, repeated,incorporated and modified, given a new meaning, and not necessarily imitated or copied, or negated; a reworking of the past to call for a new way of being in the future. The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first are characterized by an effusion of many new versions of realism, sometimes hybridized; the multi-faceted realism is a reality.

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Published
2025-05-07
How to Cite
AL-GAREEB, O. (2025). New Realities of the Contemporary Novel. Cultural Intertexts, 4, 10-20. Retrieved from https://gup.ugal.ro/ugaljournals/index.php/cultural-intertexts/article/view/8445
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