Sofia Ahlberg

Gebundenes Buch

Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction

The Oceanic Imaginary in Literature since the Information Age

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• The New Urban Atlantic
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-47921-1
• 1st edition 2016
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9781137479211
• ISBN-10: 1137479213
• Artikelnr.: 43898265

Rezensionen

"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 relation to a changing world." - Michael Wood, Emeritus Professor of English, Princeton University, USA