“Beyond Modernity”. Millennial Mythology in the American Culture of the Present Fin-de-siècle
“Beyond Modernity”. Millennial Mythology in the American Culture of the Present Fin-de-siècle

Summary/Abstract: At the century’s edge, we are less exercised by annihilation — the death of the author — or epiphany — the birth of the subject. Our existence today is marked by a tenebrous sense of survival, living on the borderlines of the present, for which there seems to be no proper name other than the current and controversial shiftiness of the prefix ‘post’: postmodernism, postcolonialism, postfeminism (...).

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