Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction: The Oceanic Imaginary in Literature since the Information Age
Sofia Ahlberg
€ 64.45
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction: The Oceanic Imaginary in Literature since the Information Age
Hardback. In selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts, ranging from Plath to Roth, Ahlberg reads contemporary narratives, particularly "transatlantic literature", as it imagines and navigates today's virtual spaces. Ultimately, Ahlberg's argument empowers the reader to reimagine a future for narrative in the Information Age. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 212 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The New Urban Atlantic
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137479211
SKU
V9781137479211
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Sofia Ahlberg
Sofia Ahlberg teaches in the Department of Creative Arts and English at La Trobe University, Australia. Her previous publications include articles in journals such as Comparative Literature Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, and Studies in the Humanities.
Reviews for Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction: The Oceanic Imaginary in Literature since the Information Age
Atlantic Afterlives asks a haunting question: how are we to preserve knowledge and narrative from the smooth, cancelling comforts of pure information? The book offers no single answer, but Ahlberg's subtle and imaginative readings of a range of contemporary writers, from Cormac McCarthy to Michel Faber, from Annie Proulx to Michel Houellebecq, provide many new ways of thinking about literature's ... Read more