A Play on Post-isms: The Unnamed Narrator's Quest for Realness in Remainder.
Tom McCarthy's Remainder (2005) is a novel that plays with various themes pertaining to "post-isms." The unnamed narrator's unreal perception is a particular postmodern syndrome. McCarthy's authorial aim is twofold: to appropriate ideas from contemporary literary theorists about unreality as a commo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 125 - 140 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Fall2025
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