Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction

Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9781527552166
ISBN-13 : 1527552160
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Book Synopsis Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction by : Lisann Anders

Download or read book Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction written by Lisann Anders and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We cannot imagine our world without its digital mirror anymore. We communicate to others in mediated ways and even create ourselves through our technological devices, presenting an imagined version of us to the outside world. This book is concerned with precisely this imagination of the self in an increasing digitalized society, going back to the beginning of our digital age, to the peak of postmodernism at the end of the 20th century. Looking at urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the journey of fictional protagonists through the streets of (mostly) New York City reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in the virtual, culminating in violence and destruction. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, this book highlights how an increasingly distanced communication triggers the imagination of violence, making it an insightful read for scholars and aficionados of city literature, postmodernism, and communication alike.


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