![]() ![]() By doing so, Franzen, this study demonstrates, reflects post-postmodernism's core realist ideas that stress pragmatic interactions with the characters and readers' cognizance of reality and encourage engagement with the narrative's language to rework the novel's social and cultural authority. Secondly, it explores his employment of narrative tools (e.g., omniscient narrator, metafiction, intertextual dialogue) against postmodern fragmentation and deconstruction. Firstly, it examines Franzen's deployment of elements such as the subjective perception of truth, self-restraint, control, and knowledge, which he utilizes to understand reality. It proposes these two works as examples of how over the past two decades, literature shifted from postmodernist fiction's irony and skepticism that presents novels as "literature of emergency" to ethical objectivism and neo-realism (Franzen, 2002, p. The study traces the evolution of this new phase as depicted in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (2001) and Freedom (2010). This study aims to find out how literature moves from the postmodern thought, flourished until the 1990s, to the post-postmodern phenomenon. ![]()
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