INTRODUCTION: POST-NOVEL/POST-SEMIOTIC/POST-DISPOSITIF IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. A WORLD-SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE

Many of the theoretical fundamentals developed for literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century have become less efficacious. In recent decades, scholars have, indeed, investigated the transformations of storytelling and cultural consumption in the digital age. However, this issue looks to further explore the future of literary and cultural studies from a world-systems perspective with a focus on the alterations of novelistic narratives in the larger context of the supplanti...