New PDF release: Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction: The Oceanic

By Ahlberg

ISBN-10: 1137479221

ISBN-13: 9781137479228

In chosen 20th- and twenty-first-century texts, starting from Plath to Roth, Ahlberg reads modern narratives, fairly "transatlantic literature", because it imagines and navigates ultra-modern digital areas. finally, Ahlberg's argument empowers the reader to reimagine a destiny for narrative within the details Age.

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As such, the novels offer a methodology for an actively engaged way of reading today’s world of increased coverage of security subjects. For a start, Greene makes it clear that all knowledge arrives at its destination battered by narratology. In The Quiet American, the Englishman Fowler, his Vietnamese lover Phuong and her family, the Frenchman Vigot, and the quiet American himself, Pyle, are engaged in a paranoid and self-seeking battle for epistemological control that foreshadows today’s competing claims for public attention and credence given to various accounts of world events that constitute a part of the current information overload.

In the nave of the cathedral, Fowler ruminates bitterly on what it means to be living with faith in a world of doubt and injustice, finding in the end yet more reasons for not believing: But I had never desired faith. The job of a reporter is to expose and record. I had never in my career discovered the inexplicable. The Pope worked his prophecies with a pencil in a movable lid and the people believed. In any vision somewhere you could find the planchette. I had no visions or miracles in my repertoire of memory.

Wormold finds himself in the odd situation of escaping punishment not by truth-telling but its opposite; he must embellish his lies about the existence of a network of agents. This is not dissimilar to the principle of information overload used by WikiLeaks, according to one of Assange’s former collaborators, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, to obscure the uncertain basis of their actions: To create the impression of unassailability to the outside world, you only had to make the context as complicated and confusing as possible.

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