COMPOSITIONAL TECHNIQUES OF POST-POSTMODERNISM (ON THE MATERIAL OF MODERN AMERICAN SHORT FICTION)

The article deals with the latest methods of constructing a literary text in American short fiction. There are two main types narrative: theatrical performance and psychological sketch. Theatricality finds expression elements surrealism, magical realism, absurdity. Sometimes it develops into an overt puppet theatre performance. sketch takes form emotional monolog or impression. analyses transformations author – he constantly changes masks, breaks up plurality self; as well protagonist, passive, problem creature, often person damaged psyche. substantiates need to study new concepts text. Modern authors create “explosions truth”, most impartial, moving away from usual canons inventing ones, sometimes taken extreme, exaggerated means artistic expression. It is argued that story able “capture” momentary barely noticeable. A striking sample modern techniques Frederic Tuten's collection “Self-Portraits: Fictions” (2010), example intertextuality, essential for aesthetics post-postmodernism.