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globalization 147
Gonzo Journalism 94
grammar, conventional use 29
Grand Narratives
breakdown of 155, 166
collapse into meta-narratives 133
Enlightenment 98, 127
postmodernity 99, 139
of religion 139
Great Expectations 25, 113
Great Gatsby, The 38
Greenwich 16, 42
Gregson, Ian 109
Grey, Alex 147, 162, 165–6
group sex 82
Harding, Paul 164
Hardy, Thomas 19
Harlem Renaissance 14, 44
Harvey, Samantha 159, 170
head massage 159
Hegelianism 100
hell, myth of 133
Hello Kitty 171
Hemingway, Ernest 19
Hess, Hermann 70–2
Heti, Shelia 162
high street retailers 187
hippie 59, 65, 68, 122
hipsters 65
History of Love, The 173
Hitchcock, Alfred 14
Holtby, Winifred 31, 33, 52
homosexuality 38–9, 81
see also Gender Crisis
hot stone treatments 159
Hours, The 22
House of leaves 181
Huncke, Herbert 60, 80
Hutcheon, Linda 99
Huxley, Aldous 69, 70
hybridity 150
id 47
identity in flux 109
ideologies and styles 1
impressionism
aspect of 12
negative attitude towards 11
individualism 156
Industrial Revolution 15, 97
see also postmodernity
In Search of Lost Time 19
instant gratification 156
International Conference on Time 42
International Necronautical Society (INS) 164
Interpretation of Dreams, The 17, 47
intertextuality 134, 152
irrationalism 50
Jackson, Kevin 13, 14, 43
James, E. L. 188
James, William 29
jazz 2, 14, 37, 45, 59, 63, 65–8, 82, 89–90
Johnson, Joyce 90
Jones, Gail 22, 195
Joyce, James 13, 21–3, 29, 32, 36, 38, 41, 44, 62, 88
Joyce, Rachel 157, 169
juxtaposition 21
Kafka, Franz 13
Kerouac, Jack 1, 2, 57, 60, 64–6, 68, 72–5, 77, 79, 81–3, 85–93
see also beats
Kindle 188–9
King, Martin Luther 58
Kiss Me First 175
Krauss, Nicole 171, 173
Kureishi, Hanif 150, 152
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 27
language games 134
Larsen, Reif 181
Lawrence, D. H. 21, 27, 36, 38–9, 48–9
Lehrer, Jonah 49, 50
Lennon, John 68, 83, 169
Le Roy, J. T. 176–7
Le Sacre Du Printemps 12
Life of Pi 131
linear plot 19, 25–6, 91, 105
literary conventions 13, 18, 91
literary criticism 7, 185
literary fiction, new 2
literary hoaxes 178
Lodge, David 144
love–hate relationship 21
Lutheranism 168
Lyon, David 136, 139
Macfarlane, Robert 157
magic realism 135, 151–2
Magnetic Fields 48
Manet and the Post-Impressionists 11
marginalized voices 147
Mark on the Wall, The 33
Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The 70
Marsden, Dora 36
Martel, Yann 131
mass media 14, 104, 135
materialism 70, 72, 87, 89
McCarthyism, rise of 57
McCarthy, Joseph 57
McCleen, Grace 159, 167
McGregor, Jon 3, 22, 102–3, 143
media
development of 139
examine through dialogue 142
impact 140–1
metafiction 106, 121, 184–6
metamorphiction.com 190
Metamorphosis, The 13
meta-narratives 100, 133
Midnight’s Children 149, 151
Miller, Henry 69
Mind at Large 70
Mitchell, David 159, 169
Mo, Timothy 148
modern cities, rise of 41–3
cafe culture 43–4
modernist cities 41
modern writers 44–5
new writing styles 45
nightclub 43–4
as a source of inspiration 44
technology development 41
transport development 42
modern fiction
form of 25–6
perceived reality 31–2
writing techniques 27–8
modernist fiction
priorities for 29–30
consciousness 30
form and writing techniques 30
human consciousness 29
structure 26–7
alienation 26
dislocation 26
portrayed the war 27
understanding of 30
modernist writers 23, 29–30, 32–3, 41, 48, 50, 53–4, 167
complex realities 31
consciousness 29–30, 48
experiment with anti-liner fiction 30
idea of time 53
inner experience 20
modern cities 41
multiple perspectives 33
perception about world 33
reaction against realism 32–3
modernity(ism) 11–23, 35, 41, 50, 61, 99–101, 106–8
cinematograph 16
classical traditions 15
commercial printing 16
condition of 17
development of cars 16
fiction language 21
growth of cities 16
growth of urbanism 15
impact of 21–3
impact upon fiction 18–21
legacy of 23
mobility and communications 16
moving picture 16
multiplication of perspectives 108
narrative sequencing 19
Nietzsche’s impact on 50
photography 16
preoccupation with time and memory 23
print media 17
priorities of modern fiction 20
rise of capitalism 15
women role 35–8
Moggach, Lottie 175
montage 21
motifs 21
Moyses, Louis 43
multiple narratives 21
multiple voices 28
Myspace 156
mythology 108, 152
Naipaul, V.S. 148
Naked Lunch 61, 63, 80–2
narratives, juxtapositions of 137
narrative strategies 136, 144
Nazism 142–3
Neuromancer 124
new era 155, 159–60, 167, 169, 171–2
capitalism 156
content of fiction 159–60, 167–72
cyber bullying 156
engagement with classics 159–60
euro zone debt crisis 156
fiction, form of 160–3
form of 172–3
individualism 156
non-linear narratives 161
paranoia 156
political unrest 156
postmodern culture questioning 171–2
realist novel in crisis 163–4
shallowness of postmodern fiction 159
shift in content 160
suffused with spirituality 169
traditional 172
writer’s ideas 167
Newtonian model of physics 129
Nietzsche, Friedrich 13, 50–1
Niffenegger, Audrey 183
nightmarish fiction 13
nihilism 13
1922: Modernism Year One 13
Nobel Prize for literature 71
non-attachment 76–7
see also Buddhism
non-linear text 137
Noon, Jeff 123–5, 190
Nude Descending a Staircase 12
Number9dream 169
old narratives of religion 134
Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, The 157
online predators 156
On the Road 2, 63, 72–3, 77, 79, 81–2, 85–94
alienation sense 92
capture of 91–4
conventional narrative 86
experimental writing 90
form 91
free-flowing style of letters 88
immediacy 88
improvisational techniques 88
influence 93
inspiration 87–8
jazz 89
reason for written 85–6
relationship with the beats 88
self-censorship 87
tenderness among wild young 92
writing style 88
Orange prize 159
organic food 157
Origin of Species 17
origin of universe, myth of 132
ostranenie 143
Our Tragic Universe 169, 171–2
Ozeki, Ruth 171
Palahniuk, Chuck 116
Pankhurst, Emmeline 36
paradigm shift 18, 98, 111, 188
paranoia 57, 123, 156
Paris Exposition 42
see also modern cities, rise of
Parker, Charlie 63
see also beats
Parks, Rosa 58
pastiche 112
Patanjali 76
perception, plurality and fluidity of 32
philosophy development 50
photography 16
plagiarism 112–13, 163
Plant, Sadie 82, 84
Player of Games, The 3
pluralism 105
Poetics of Postmodernism 99
pointillism 12
Politics 195
pornography 112
post-Christian world 157
postcolonial fiction 151–2
post-impressionism 11
postmodern era, reality 139–40
postmodern fiction 101–2, 105, 108, 111, 131, 133–5
construction of reality 143–4
portrayal of history 134–6
postmodernity(ism) 8, 97–101, 103, 107–8, 110, 113, 123, 127, 148, 155, 159, 165
body and sexuality 112
computer mediation 97
consumer commodities 104
context-dependent language games 100
continuity notions 103
cultural stimuli 127
cultural technology 97
dispersion of voices 108
electronic revolution 98
elitist 103
Enlightenment 98
essence 98
female and male stereotypes 110
feminism 112–13
fiction 101–3, 108
form and language 105–6
fractured vision of 165
gender, new representations 111
gender perception 109–10
genre-splicing and mixing 108
Grand Narratives 98, 100
identity 112
images 142–3
influence 155
Lyotard versus Habermas 100–1
media impact 140–1
media-shaped world of simulation 123
metafiction 106
meta-narratives 100
and modern fiction 106–8
mood of 99
moving away from 165–6
multi-layered concept 97
narratives creation 106
narratives recycling 104
ontological questions 107
oppressive 110
ostranenie technique 143
over-exposure to otherness 127
pluralism 105
plurality of opportunities 110
reader’s perceptions of reality 144
relations with modernism 99
representations of mass media 104
sexuality 109–12
signs 142–3
single centre of consciousness 105
slogans 142–3
sophisticated modernism 107
spirituality 166–7
strategies 103–6
techniques 103–6
textual gaps 102
time shifts 103
truth exploration 127–8
postmodern writers, displacement exploring 149–51
poststructuralist theory 113
Potter, Dennis 106
Pound, Ezra 13, 36, 62
power of the imagination 178–9
Prime Meridian Conference 42
Principles of Psychology 29
print media 17
decline of 187
Professor of Poetry, The 167
prose-narrative 2
Proust, Marcel 19, 51, 113
psychological realism 102
psychology developments
ego 47
fundamental developments 47
id 47
impact on writer 48–9
modernist writing techniques 49
superego 47
Pulitzer Prize 161, 164, 189
punctuation, conventional use 29
Pykett, Lyn 18, 35–6
quick-silverness of mind 30–1
rationalism 50
real events, re-telling of 178
realism 18, 32–3, 114, 125, 127, 144, 182
conventions of 106
realist fiction 4, 13, 29, 102, 106, 147–8
other voices 148
restrictions of 164
realist literature, characteristics of 5–6
realist novel 19, 163–4
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto 163, 175, 177
reality perceptions 175–9
manipulation of 176
reader’s perceptions 144–5
real transition 130
re-evaluation of power 155
reflexology 159
reiki 159
religious doctrine 131, 167
Renault, Mary 159
Richardson, Dorothy 29, 36, 48, 54
Riley, Joan 148
Rimbaud, Arthur 59, 65
Roberts Symmons, Michael 170
romanticism 62
Royle, Nicholas 184, 185
Rushdi, Salman 107, 149, 151–2
Russian-doll narrative 173–4
Ryan, Rob 161, 182
Sackville, Amy 22–3, 39
samskara 76
see also Buddhism
Sarah 176
Satanic Verses 149, 152
Schad, John 185
science developments 51–3
absolute-time-space 52
quantum theory 52
relativity theory 52
wave particle duality 52
writing techniques 53–4
scraps, fiction building from 181–3
Black Boxes 182
House of Leaves 181
Incestuous Sisters 183
Like Bees to Honey 182
Selected Works of T. S. Spivet 181
Sky Full of Kindness 182
This Is For You 182
Time Traveller’s Wife 183
Second Sex, The 109
Selected Works of T. S. Spivet, The 181
Self, Will 23
self-publishing opportunities 187
self-realization 2, 76
self-referential signs 139
self-reflexive fiction 19
semi-fictionalized sequence of elaborations 186
sentence construction 21
Sexing the Cherry 114–15, 128–30
sexual liberation 39
shamanism 132
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Shields, David 163–4, 175, 177–8
shift in displacement 148–9
Shock of the Fall, The 173
simulation through dialogue 141
Skype 156
Slaughterhouse-Five 93, 103–4, 144
Smailes, Caroline 182, 190
Smith, Ali 185–6
Smith, Zadie 150, 164
Someone Called Derrida 185
Sons and Lovers 21, 48
Sound and Fury, The 21, 29
Soupault, Philippe 48
Soviet communism, collapse of 97
Special Theory of Relativity 17
Spengler, Oswald 72
spirituality 68–77, 165–7, 169–71
Bhagavad Gita 69–70
Buddhism 73
spiritual writers 69–72
tantric Buddhism 70
Upanishads 70–1
Vedanta 69
State of the Art, The 3
Stein, Gertrude 2, 16, 21, 39, 45
Stevenson, Randall 30
Stieglitz, Alfred 16
Still Point 22
stream of consciousness 21
Suffragette Movement 15
see also feminism
superego 47
surrealism 12, 48, 61–3
see also Breton, Andre
sutras 76–7
swadhyaya 76
see also Buddhism
Sweet Sour 148
symbolism 12
symbols 21
syntax, conventional use 29
Taoism 171
techno-music pumping 125
Wasteland, The 13, 83, 72
Thirty Nine Steps, The 187
Thomas, Scarlett 19, 93, 159, 169, 171–2
Thompson, Hunter S. 94
Tibetan Book of the Dead 70, 83
To the Lighthouse 27, 30, 49, 159
traditional realist fiction 1–2, 4–8, 105, 121, 135, 184–6, 194–6
challenges 184–6
cross-formal experimentation 185
metafiction 184
notion of reality 185
trainspotting 125
transcendentalism 75
trauma 28
truth of religion, constructed 132
TV advertisements 140
Twelve Dancing Princesses, The 115
Twitter 156, 161, 189–91
Ulysses 13, 23, 29, 32, 41, 44, 54, 88
Unbelonging, The 148
unconventional punctuation 21
unconventional writing 1
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The 157, 169, 172
Upanishad
conflict of duality 71
focus of 71
US National Book Award for Fiction 93
Valentino, Rudolph 14
vanity publishing 162
Victorian fiction 25
Vietnam War 68
Virgin Suicides, The 195
virtual transitions 130
Visit from the Goon Squad, A 189
Vonnegut, Kurt 93, 103, 144
wages for motherhood 36
Walker Thompson, Karen 167
wave-particle duality 52, 130
Welsh, Irvine 125
Western materialism 149
White Noise 140, 142
White Teeth 150–1
Wilson, Leigh 14–15, 18–19
Winfrey, Oprah 177
Winterson, Jeanette 3, 105–6, 114–15, 128–30, 132–3
Women in Love 38
Women’s Movement 110
Women’s Social and Political Union 36