20.500.12556/RUL-173087 New Sincerity and Autofiction: a Self-Therapeutic Reaction to the Ironies of Postmodernism New Sincerity in avtofikcija: samoterapevtska reakcija na ironije postmodernizma The present master’s thesis traces the development of English literature from the end of the 19th century through modernism and postmodernism in order to explain the current trends in contemporary literature. The thesis argues that these trends have arisen as a reaction to the negative aspects of postmodernist culture as described by David Foster Wallace (criticizing the adoption of postmodernist irony by mainstream media) and Fredric Jameson (the facets of depthlessness, waning of affect, and loss of historicity). As a response to these, I present two similar yet differing accounts of contemporary literature. These are The New Sincerity as described by Adam Kelly (focusing on a renewed sincere communication between author and reader) and metamodernism as described by van der Akker, Vermeulen, and Gibbons (as a “structure of feeling” that works towards a return of depth, affect, and history). Ultimately, I turn to autofiction, a subgenre of the novel that seems to best encapsulate and represent the recent developments in literature through its utilization of postmodernist devices that are used to achieve ‘post-postmodern’ goals. In the second part of the thesis, I analyze three separate works of autofiction in order to illustrate the theory in practice. Magistrska naloga sledi razvoju angleške književnosti od konca 19. stoletja prek modernizma in postmodernizma, njen namen pa je pojasniti sodobne trende v angleški književnosti. Naloga zagovarja tezo, da so ti trendi nastali kot odziv na negativne vidike postmodernistične kulture, kot ju opisujeta David Foster Wallace (kritika prevzema postmodernistične ironije s strani mainstream medijev) in Fredric Jameson ('brezglobinskost', upad afekta in izguba zgodovinskosti). Kot odziv na to predstavljamo dva podobna, a različna pogleda na sodobno književnost. To sta »nova iskrenost«, kot jo opiše Adam Kelly (ki se osredotoča na obnovljeno iskreno komunikacijo med avtorjem in bralcem), ter metamodernizem, kot ga opišejo van der Akker, Vermeulen in Gibbons (kot »struktura občutenja«, ki teži k ponovnemu vračanju globine, afekta in zgodovine). Na koncu se obrnem k avtofikciji, podzvrsti romana. Po mojem mnenju ta kar najbolje povzema in predstavlja najnovejši razvoj v literaturi, saj uporablja postmodernistične prijeme za dosego »post-postmodernističnih« ciljev. V drugem delu naloge analiziram tri različna dela avtofikcije, da predstavljeno teorijo ponazorim v praksi. autofiction New Sincerity metamodernism critique of postmodernism avtofikcija Nova iskrenost metamodernizem kritika postmodernizma true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Magistrsko delo/naloga 2025-09-13 07:15:44 2025-09-13 07:15:51 2025-11-02 04:03:19 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 0000-00-00 NiDoloceno NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 1970-01-01 591371 253404675 56174.pdf 56174.pdf 1 A3185A30F12BDCC343B64A74E5325059 c73d1e2b303176943b0412a7f2eb80cf0597b28e6efdc3afcfb6d4df3cab2f24 8ce45c2a-9060-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=217256 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0