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Hysterical realism

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Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism, is a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other. [1]

18 relations: An American Demon: A Memoir, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Donald Antrim, Harry Stephen Keeler, Infinite Jest, James Wood (critic), Magic realism, Maximalism, Middlesex (novel), NW (novel), On Beauty, Postmodern literature, The Verificationist, Tom Wolfe, Viken Berberian, White Teeth, Zadie Smith.

An American Demon: A Memoir

An American Demon: A Memoir is a 2011 novel/memoir by Jack Grisham that mixes a detailed account of the author's life until the end of the 1980s with bits of philosophical fiction.

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David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and university instructor in the disciplines of English and creative writing.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist.

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Donald Antrim

Donald Antrim (born 1958) is an American novelist.

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Harry Stephen Keeler

Harry Stephen Keeler (November 3, 1890 – January 22, 1967) was a prolific but little-known American author of mysteries and science fiction.

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Infinite Jest

Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.

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James Wood (critic)

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965 in Durham, England)"WOOD, James Douglas Graham", Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2011; online edn, November 2011, is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist.

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Magic realism

Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a genre of narrative fiction and, more broadly, art (literature, painting, film, theatre, etc.) that, while encompassing a range of subtly different concepts, expresses a primarily realistic view of the real world while also adding or revealing magical elements.

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Maximalism

In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an esthetic of excess and redundancy.

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Middlesex (novel)

Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002.

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NW (novel)

NW is a 2012 novel by British author Zadie Smith.

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On Beauty

On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E.M. Forster.

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Postmodern literature

Postmodern literature is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era.

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The Verificationist

Berndt–Hall–Hall–Hausman algorithm The Verificationist is a 2000 novel by American author Donald Antrim.

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Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930Some sources say 1931; the New York Times and Reuters both initially reported 1931 in their obituaries before changing to 1930. See and – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.

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Viken Berberian

Viken Berberian is a writer and essayist whose works rely on satire and defy easy categorization.

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White Teeth

White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith.

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Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith FRSL (born 25 October 1975) is a contemporary British novelist, essayist, and short-story writer.

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