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Flat-World Fiction : Digital Humanity in Early Twenty-First-Century America /
"This book analyzes representations of digital technology and the social and ethical concerns it creates in mainstream literary American fiction and fiction written about America in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In this period, authors such as Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Da...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: American Literature and Digital Technology in the New Millennium
- Relationships with Technology in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story and Kristen Roupenian's "Cat Person"
- Searching History in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad
- The Digital Divine in Joshua Ferris's To Rise Again at a Decent Hour and Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am
- Cybercapitalism in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis and Dave Eggers's The Circle
- National Divides and Digitization in Zadie Smith's "Meet the President!" and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West
- Conclusion: Flat-World Fiction and the Textured Future.