Contemporary realism shifts from personalized content to personalized narrative frame

Evidence

But the fascinating mutation in the latest realisms, a mutation discernible only in the large frame of the history of the novel, is that personalization in the novel’s worldview—phenomenality, the mortal time-space continuum, the embodied sensorium, the concretude of detail, the banality of Bildung—has now become a personalization of its point of view, of narrativity itself—which is to say, its erasure. The personal material has subjectivated itself as personal frame. Current realism virtually exclusively composes itself in the first person. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 504

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precisely names the structural turn defining immediacy: content-personalization becomes frame-personalization, first-person point of view.
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s core goal of naming the aesthetic features under ‘immediacy’ — first person and collapse of mediation. — connects to: Deep stories furnish ready-made narrative lenses for interpreting the world. — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 228