RT journal article T1 The transcendentalist turn of the new post-postmodern American literature A1 Bolaño Quintero, Jesús A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa K1 American transcendentalism K1 post-postmodernism K1 unfinished project of modernity K1 American literature AB This article responds to the debate in the field of literary theory around the nature of post-postmodern American novels. While some authors claimed at the turn of the millennium that the novel was dead, a new genera-tion of American writers were responsi-ble for a new engagement with the gen-re on the part of the public. With this in mind, this study seeks to shed light on the nature of the literature written by young novelists seeking to distance themselves from the dead end of post-modernism. Our premise is that during the crisis that brings about a rethinking of the concept of postmodernity, the young American authors turned their gaze towards ideas from American tran-scendentalism as a tool to recover the unfinished Project of modernity. PB Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia SN 1887-5238 YR 2020 FD 2020 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29825 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/29825 LA eng DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz RD 08-nov-2026