Literary scholar Jennifer Ashton – author of the canonical study From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century – has published a very interesting critical appraisal of metamodern poetry and the work of Dana Ward over at NonSite. In his poem ‘Things the Baby Liked, A-Z’, Ward invokes the figure of Bertolt Brecht, noting …
IN MEI VAN DIT JAAR PUBLICEERDE dit weekblad onder de kop ‘Verlangen naar oprechtheid’ een korte recensie van het laatste album van zangeres Anouk, Sad Singalong Songs. Een maand eerder verscheen ook al een artikel met vrijwel dezelfde titel. Lynn Bergers recensie ‘Een verlangen naar oprechtheid’ gaat echter niet over Nederlandse popmuziek, maar over de roman A Thousand …
The American Book Review (34: 4) dedicated a special issue to metamodernism. It includes review…
In the special ‘post-postmodernism’ issue of the Estonian journal Methis (Vol 8, Nr 11, 2013), the editors Piret Viires and Priit Kruus have included a translation of ‘Notes on Metamodernism‘ (2010, translator Jaak Tomberg), alongside an introduction to metamodern theory and a series of interesting articles on contemporary Estonian literature. You can find the special issue here and the translation …
The U.S. Edition of The Huffington Post just published an interesting essay in which Seth Abramson discusses and contextualises a metamodern poetics. He writes: Metamodernism is much more than the implicit proclamation that postmodernism is dead; it is an active and expanding poetics that makes positive submissions of a historically idiosyncratic sort. Chief among these submissions are …
“I paint your house, you sing a song at my boyfriend’s birthday. The next door neighbour sets up a farm on the roof of his house. Artists sell gloves knitted by Granny – the proceeds are for an art project. Things can be different!”
