RT journal article
T1 Paul Auster’S Transcendentalism: Shifting Postmodern Sensibility in The New Millennium
A1 Bolaño Quintero, Jesús
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 American fiction
K1 Language games
K1 Ludwig wittgenstein
K1 Paul auster
K1 Postmodernism
K1 Transcendentalism
AB This article traces Paul Auster’s shift in sensibility after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. While his earlier novels where paradigmatic of postmodern self-referentiality, several critics have argued that his post-9/11 production turned towards realism. This might be interpreted as subsidiary evidence in favor of the polemic debate around the death of postmodernism. However, the aim of this article is to outline the transformation of the writer and offer explanations as to why that change in sensibility does not respond to a divestiture of postmodernism, but to an intensification of it. I trace Auster’s alternative to postmodern relativism, that is, transcendentalism, to arrive at the conclusion that his stance towards it is the same in his later novels. © 2022, Journal of English Studies. All rights reserved.
PB Universidad de La Rioja
SN 1576-6357
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27268
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27268
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 06-nov-2026