Atlantic afterlives in contemporary fiction : the oceanic imaginary in literature since the information age / by Sofia Ahlberg.
Ahlberg, Sofia, 1973- author.
2016
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Title Atlantic afterlives in contemporary fiction : the oceanic imaginary in literature since the information age / by Sofia Ahlberg.
Author Ahlberg, Sofia, 1973- author.
ISBN 9781137479228 (electronic book)
1137479221 (electronic book)
9781137479211
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number PN3503
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.3/04
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series The new urban Atlantic
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Series Introduction: "The New Urban Atlantic"; Introduction; Part I Leaking Oceans; 1 Narrative without Borders: Reading Graham Greene in the Information Age; 2 Apocalypse Then and Now: The Road, Lord of the Flies, and the Ends of Knowledge; Part II Unsound Waves; 3 Through a Border Darkly: North Atlantic Narratives of Exploitation in Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and Annie Proulx's The Shipping News; 4 A Post-Atlantic Divorce: Reading and Writing Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in the Digital Age

Part III The Coastless Sea5 Bridging Bereavement: Narratives of Loss and Loss of Narrative in Anne Michaels; 6 Future Perfect: The Problem of the Human in Michel Houellebecq's Atomised and Philip Roth's The Human Stain; Conclusion: Beyond the Information Age and Sustainable Reading Practices; Notes; References; Index

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