![]() ![]() Literary critics and scholars have yet to come together around a new set of terms, but the novels of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elena Ferrante, and Ben Lerner suggest that an important part of the current literature is a return to autofiction, or writing that blends elements of autobiography and fiction. Thus, it shouldn’t be surprising that by the time postmodernism marked its 40th birthday, somewhere around the turn of the millennium, the race was on to define the next “cultural dominant,” to borrow a concept from Fredric Jameson. ![]() ![]() ARTISTS AND WRITERS have long tried to understand how their era is new or different. ![]()
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