George Kowalik
Biographic Data
| ID | 9237172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Kowalik |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Kowalik |
| SIGNATURE | KOWALIK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-0194-7834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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Post-Postmodernism, the “Affective Turn”, and Inauthenticity
This article considers Rachel Greenwald Smith’s concept of the “Affective Turn” in contemporary fiction by looking at a constellation of novels published near the turn of the twenty-first century: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001), Percival Everett’s Erasure (2001), and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000). As Rachel Greenwald Smith claims, this “Turn” offers a “corrective or counter to postmoderni…
Digging Up the Past, Complicating the Present, and Damaging the Future
Percival Everett has published almost thirty books of fiction in forty years, and The Trees is his 22nd novel. It revisits ideas from Everett’s earlier works while asking questions that, in some ways, tie his oeuvre together—these questions can be linked to temporality and history, problematic literary ideas such as post-postmodernism, and both racialised trauma and the flawed cultural concept of the postracial. In this article, I argue that The …
Modernist Mapping and Post-postmodern Feeling
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) self-consciously foregrounds its structure, shape, and organisation, doing so to channel modernist legacies of the encyclopaedic novel. But Smith also reacts against postmodernism’s extension of this experimental framework – an extension which in the second half of the twentieth century was bolstered by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of the ‘rhizome’. Resisting the threats of stasis and unfeeling that…
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Modernist Mapping and Post-postmodern Feeling
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) self-consciously foregrounds its structure, shape, and organisation, doing so to channel modernist legacies of the encyclopaedic novel. But Smith also reacts against postmodernism’s extension of this experimental framework – an extension which in the second half of the twentieth century was bolstered by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of the ‘rhizome’. Resisting the threats of stasis and unfeeling that…
Post-Postmodernism, the “Affective Turn”, and Inauthenticity
This article considers Rachel Greenwald Smith’s concept of the “Affective Turn” in contemporary fiction by looking at a constellation of novels published near the turn of the twenty-first century: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (1996), Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2001), Percival Everett’s Erasure (2001), and Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000). As Rachel Greenwald Smith claims, this “Turn” offers a “corrective or counter to postmoderni…
Digging Up the Past, Complicating the Present, and Damaging the Future
Percival Everett has published almost thirty books of fiction in forty years, and The Trees is his 22nd novel. It revisits ideas from Everett’s earlier works while asking questions that, in some ways, tie his oeuvre together—these questions can be linked to temporality and history, problematic literary ideas such as post-postmodernism, and both racialised trauma and the flawed cultural concept of the postracial. In this article, I argue that The …
Just in Time
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Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Postmodernism (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art history (1 work)