META-MODERN URBAN EXPERIENCE IN THE ANTHOLOGY OF TOPOPHILIC PROSE V PITERE ZHIT’

• Authors: Duleba Maxim , Dulebová Irina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article applies meta-modernism as a new discursive practice for interpreting contemporaneity to the anthology V Pitere zhit’: ot Dvortsovoi do Sadovoi, ot Gangutskoi do Shpalernoi. Lichnye istorii (To Live in Petersburg: From Dvortsovaia to Sadovaia, from Gangutskaia to Shpalernaia. Personal stories, 2017) edited by Natalia Sokolovskaia and Elena Shubina. It demonstrates that despite the plurality of authorial styles in the collection. It advocates a homogeneous meta-modern mode of urban experience within which postmodern anti-anthropocentrism is substituted by the affirmation of the feeling (affective) subject, and the postmodern ahistorical presentism is replaced by the pursuit of self-situating into the historical time, allowing for a valorisation of Being through a subjectivity-affirming dialogue with the historical and contemporary Other.

Keywords

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META-MODERNISM; TOPOPHILIC PROSE; URBAN PROSE

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23 – 35

Contributors

author

Duleba Maxim

• Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Gondova 2, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4500-8343

author

Dulebová Irina

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8916-1617

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2023.15.1.2