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<p>Martin Paul Eve, ‘Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the Problems of “Metamodernism”: Post-Millennial Post-Postmodernism?’, C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 1 (2012), pp. 7-25.</p>
<blockquote><p>David Foster Wallace’s long standing ambition was to move beyond postmodern irony, which he claimed introduced ‘sarcasm, cynicism, a manic ennui, suspicion of all authority, suspicion of all constraints on conduct’ into literature and culture. This article disturbs and troubles the concept of a millennial turning point for notions of a revived, ethically viable fiction. Arguing that if twenty-first-century fiction is easiest to categorize as metamodern, it is because of a shift of critical perspective overly rooted in positivist historical thinking, seeking a parallel progression in its object of study. Rather, this shift should now recognize that metamodern ontology and epistemology are also applicable to many postmodern fictions to their fictions.</p></blockquote>
<p>Available <a href="https://www.gylphi.co.uk/ojs/index.php/c21/article/view/155">online at C21 Literature</a>. You can <a href="https://www.martineve.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Martin_Paul_Eve-TP-DFW-and-metamodernism-fifty-percent.pdf">download 50% of the article for free</a>, as per the licensing conditions of Gylphi.</p>