" From climate catastrophe to pandemics and economic crises, the problems facing
humanity can feel impossible to solve. Critical Modesty in Contemporary Fiction argues that …

Drawing inspiration from the so-called ontological turn in anthropology and enactivist
philosophy, this article argues that a significant strand of twenty-first-century fiction responds …

This article pinpoints a genre of contemporary experimental fiction that troubles normative
ethical and representational demarcations between human and nonhuman life, aggregating …

Twitchell's essay examines Dave Eggers's What Is the What (2006) in the context of recent
international interest in the morality of uncertainty, a stance which looks to self-erasure, not …

Since the advent of modernism, sentimentality has increasingly fallen from grace as a
tenable mode of expression in literary fiction. Originally valued highly, sentimentality has …

1 In September 2016, at the Brisbane Writers Festival, 1 Lionel Shriver, a Londonbased
American writer whose realist novels often take on the evils of capitalism, walked onstage …

In these compelling new essays, leading critics sharpen our understanding of the narrative
structures that convey meaning in fiction, taking as their point of departure the narratological …

In Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Ceremony, Tayo's intrusive memories transport him from his
quiet life at an isolated sheep camp to the jungles of the Pacific where he fought as a soldier …

Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship
between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This …

In his encompassing revision of narrative minimalism, Zoltán Abády-Nagy considers that this
mode “in contemporary American fiction [is] both an extension of postmodernism and a …