Essays about: "Jonathan Brott"

Found 2 essays containing the words Jonathan Brott.

1. 1. An Imperfect World, Imperfectly Retold : Mimetic Uncertainty in Early, Late, and Meta-Modern Fiction

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Brott; [2020]
   Keywords : Mimetic Uncertainty; Uncertain Narration; Unreliable Narration; Realism; Modernism; Metamodernism; Reflexivity; Virginia Woolf; Tao Lin; Daniel Defoe.;

   Abstract : Proposing the concept of mimetic uncertainty, this project aims to provide a critical inquiry into the correspondence of unreliable narration and realism. Building on Springett (2013) and Olsen (2003), a distinction between narratorial unreliability and uncertainty is proposed to denote whether a narrator explicitly signals an awareness of their fallible narration. READ MORE

3. 2. The Point of Play : Resuscitating Romantic Irony in Metamodern Poetics

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jonathan Brott; [2018]
   Keywords : Metamodernism; Internet poetry; Romantic Irony; Alt-Lit; New Sincerity; Steve Roggenbuck; Friedrich Schlegel; Thomas Carlyle; Cathy Comstock; Paul de Man;

   Abstract : This essay investigates the prospect of Romantic Irony’s potential resurgence in contemporary poetics and discusses its relevance and likeness with metamodernism. The internet has by now not only seeped into, but fully permeated, the process of literary production and distribution. READ MORE