Contemporary fiction and the ethics of modern culture [electronic resource] / Jeffrey Karnicky.
This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the 21st century. The writers discussed in Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture pay close attention to the concrete realities of the everyday world, such as the feelings of isolation created in ur...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | This book argues for the ethical relevancy of contemporary fiction at the beginning of the 21st century. The writers discussed in Contemporary Fiction and the Ethics of Modern Culture pay close attention to the concrete realities of the everyday world, such as the feelings of isolation created in urban environments; the roles played by sports, drugs, advertising, and the media; and the widespread use of computer, telecommunication, and entertainment technologies. Through reading novels by such writers as David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, and Irvine Welsh, this book looks at how these works seek to transform the ways that readers live in the world. This book should appeal to scholars of contemporary literature, persons interested in cultural studies, critics interested in ethics, scholars of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, students of contemporary literature, and general readers of contemporary literature. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 185 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780230603592 0230603599 9781349537655 1349537659 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |