Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction : The Oceanic Imaginary in Literature since the Information Age Hardback
by S. Ahlberg
Part of the The New Urban Atlantic series
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Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction offers fresh readings of what has been called "transatlantic literature".
In selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts it discovers a shift from oceanic, place-based knowledge to an atmospheric, placeless circulation of information.
Consonant with the displacements of the Information Age, this book reads contemporary narrative as it imagines and navigates today's virtual spaces.
An important conclusion of the book is that intellectual resources are finite and should be used sustainably.
Thus, arguing against a conventional comparative approach, this book proposes reading practices that resist the tendency toward an oversupply of reworked literary contexts that seems bent on matching the reach of the World Wide Web.
Instead, the book reimagines place as a practice in the way it is communicated and narrated.
Ultimately, this book empowers the reader to reimagine a future for narrative in the Information Age.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:212 pages, XII, 212 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:02/03/2016
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- ISBN:9781137479211
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:212 pages, XII, 212 p.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:02/03/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137479211
