Ironic Illuminations: An exploration of Spirituality and Metamodernism in How to be Both and Klara and the Sun
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2023-06-15
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This thesis explores the intertwining of Metamodernism and spirituality in the contemporary British novels How to be Both by Ali Smith and Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. It draws on the theoretical framework of Metamodernism with its emphasis on oscillation, the concept of both/neither, and re-mystification. This study examines how the novels engage with spiritual themes and motifs and human experience. Through close textual analysis, the thesis rgues that these works challenge traditional binaries in regard to time, gender and the nature technology divide, and offers a more complex and nuanced understanding of the interconnected relationship between the self, society and spirituality.
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