Jesús Bolaño

Jesús Bolaño
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Universidad de Cádiz | UCA

PhD in Literature (University of Cádiz), Master's Degree in Digital Humanities (programming for the Humanities); BA in Translation and Interpreting (University of Granada), BA in English (University of Cádiz)
Assistant professor at the University of Cádiz (Spain)

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The recent rise of a new type of independent film reveals a cultural paradigm shift from postmodernism to something beyond. This paper attempts to show that this shift is a return to the grand narratives of the unfinished project of modernity which, according to Jürgen Habermas, was interrupted by WWII and the prevalence of liberalism and capitalis...
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Report for the award: The Eccles Centre European Postgraduate Fellow in North American Studies 2014. Awarded for the best European proposal in research at the British Library.
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At the turn of the millennium, many theorists questioned the survival of postmodernism and, although it is true that their statements were not supported by a general consensus, the new century brought with it an intense debate on the subject. With this in mind, the aim of this article is to map out the taxonomy of the alternatives to postmodernism...
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Even though transcendentalism never ceased to be present in American culture, during the first decade of the twenty-first century, the gaze of artists and theorists turned to the ideas of the American Renaissance with a hope that had no place during the reign of postmodern irony. With this in mind, the purpose of this article is to discern the adeq...
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At the turn of the millennium, the young writers of the New Sincerity movement tried to create a new realist literature by getting rid of the destructive power of postmodern irony. The consecrated writers of the old postmodern guard, whose Weltanschauung was conformed to the style and the relativistic reality-processing modes of the previous paradi...
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The point of departure for this article is the much-debateddeathof postmodernism, heralded by influential expertson the subject such as Linda Hutcheon or Ihab Hassanat the beginning of the new millennium. Although the academic community as a whole has not agreed with this fact, there was an intense debate during the first years of the twenty-firstc...
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The point of departure for this article is the much-debated death of postmodernism, heralded by influential experts on the subject such as Linda Hutcheon or Ihab Hassan at the beginning of the new millennium. Although the academic community as a whole has not agreed with this fact, there was an intense debate during the first years of the twenty-fi...
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This article traces Paul Auster’s shift in sensibility after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. While his earlier novels where paradigmatic of postmodern self-referentiality, several critics have argued that his post-9/11 production has turned towards realism. This might be interpreted as subsidiary evidence in favor of the polemic debate...
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By analysing Dave Eggers’s autofictional work A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, this article attempts to reveal the role of this author in the post-postmodern narrative of the turn of the millennium. Following in the wake of David Foster Wallace, Eggers’s solution to overcome the problems created by postmodernism is a kind of writing based...
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Paul Auster es uno de los autores posmodernos más estudiados y sus novelas han sido ampliamente utilizadas como ejemplos paradigmáticos de la ficción de este movimiento. A la luz del reciente debate teórico sobre el paso del posmodernismo, parece fundamental explorar la forma en que Auster concibe la naturaleza de este paradigma, los problemas que...
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Este artículo responde al debate que se produce en el campo de la teoría literaria en torno a la naturaleza de la novela estadounidense postmoderna. Mientras que algunos autores afirmaron a principios del milenio que la novela estaba muerta, una nueva generación de jóvenes escritores estadounidenses fueron responsables de un nuevo compromiso con el...
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David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram" is an account of the prevalence of destructive irony at the end of the twentieth century. Trying to break free from the solipsism brought about by postmodern relativism, Wallace embraced sincerity as the cornerstone of the zeitgeist of the new millennium. This article offers an analysis of two salient source...
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Starting with an analysis of the significance of the French New Wave for postmodern cinema, this essay sets out to make a study of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) as the film that marks the beginning of what could be considered a paradigm shift in American cinema at the end of the 20th century. Building from the muchdebated passing of postmo...
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This article analyses Alexander Payne's film Nebraska from the perspective of the paradigm shift produced after the much-debated passing of postmodernism, announced by theorists such as Ihab Hassan or Linda Hutcheon. We shall examine how the lack of grand narratives makes it almost impossible to give structured meanings to the concept of reality. P...
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Many scholars deem the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers as the events that mark the demise of postmodernism. The dream is over and the age of irony has to make way for the era of earnestness. Suddenly, the banality of postmodern games does not fit inside the frame of the sense of loss of the American society. American authors must account for a...
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After the passing of postmodernism, many authors start proposing alternatives for a new paradigm with the hope of eliminating the feelings of solipsism and nihilism produced by years of metafictional experimentation. In the new post-9/11 era, the lack of grand narratives makes it almost impossible to give a structured meaning to the concept of real...
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Many scholars consider the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers as the events that mark the demise of postmodernism. The dream is over. The age of irony makes way for the era of earnestness. Suddenly, the banality of postmodern games does not fit inside the frame of the sense of loss of the American society. American authors must account for a new...
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The end of postmodernism? Jesús Bolaño Quintero explores David Foster Wallace’s writing, searching for a new form of honesty in American literature after the age of irony. http://www.baas.ac.uk/usso/overcoming-postmodernism/