{"product_id":"dave-eggers-escaping-the-postmodern-von-lucas-peters","title":"Dave Eggers: Escaping the Postmodern","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrior scholarship has identified Dave Eggers¿ work as postmodern,  focusing on the preface to A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius  (A.H.W.O.S.G.). Because this prefacing indicates Eggers¿ status as the  subjected author of postmodernity, it is easy to dismiss him as a  postmodern author. The establishment of Eggers as a conscientious  author aware of the pitfalls of the postmodern author-subject provides  the acknowledgment necessary for Eggers to move beyond the  postmodern realm. His memoir is a transitional piece of literature. It  serves as a bridge from the postmodern to the contemporary state of  literature concerned with the transgression of all boundaries, a state I  term connectivism. Thus, Eggers¿ three major works since A.H.W.O.S.G.  (You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We Are Hungry, and What is the  What) and the formation of his publishing company, McSweeney¿s, are  examples of how authorship, literature, and literary culture have  moved beyond the postmodern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838362304\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eConnectivism in Contemporary Literature\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838362304","offer_id":39499094491229,"sku":"9783838362304","price":49.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/0e8e1050-12c7-4dd4-8113-2dad631e5787.jpg?v=1775626952","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/dave-eggers-escaping-the-postmodern-von-lucas-peters","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}