Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction write by Lisann Anders. This book was released on 2020-05-20. Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Cities, Citizens, and Technologies
Cities, Citizens, and Technologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities, Citizens, and Technologies write by Paula Geyh. This book was released on 2009-05-21. Cities, Citizens, and Technologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new information and communication technologies. In particular, Geyh explores how the urban spaces of postmodernity (parks, plazas, streets, sidewalks) and postmodern urban subjectivities and communities respond to and create each other – how they become mutually constructing. While there is much in this book about what makes a city "postmodern," its primary focus is on how the postmodern city is experienced by its inhabitants, and in this respect the book is also a study of everyday life in the postmodern era. As such, it deals not only with the ways in which the postmodern city has developed out of economic, technological, political, and cultural structures that are different from those of the modern city, but also with how the postmodern city changes our ways of knowing and experiencing the world and ourselves as postmodern urban subjects, as citizens of postmodernity.
Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory
Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory write by Michael Kane. This book was released on 2020-01-14. Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Postmodern Time and Space in Fiction and Theory seeks to place the contemporary transformation of notions of space and time, often attributed to the technologies we use, in the context of the ongoing transformations of modernity. Bringing together examples of modern and contemporary fiction (from Defoe to DeLillo, Frankenstein to Finnegans Wake) and theoretical discussions of the modern and the post-modern, the author explores the legacy of modern transformations of space and time under five headings: “The Space of Nature”; “The Space of the City”; “Postmodern or Most Modern Time”; “The Time and Space of the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction”; and “Travel: from Modernity to...?”. These five essays re-examine the meanings of modernity and its aftermath in relation to the spaces and times of the natural, the urban and the media environment.
Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm
Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm write by Warren J. Bareiss. This book was released on 2020-12-10. Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is the deliberate harming of one's body without suicidal intent. NSSI tends to be secretive, often involving cutting, bruising, or burning on hidden parts of the body. While NSSI often occurs among adolescents, it is not limited to that age group. Communication and NSSI intersect in many ways, including conversation among family members, consultation with healthcare providers, representation in the media, discourse among people who self-injure, and even communication with oneself. Each chapter in Communicating With, About, and Through Self-Harm: Scarred Discourse addresses a different context of communication crucial to our understanding NSSI. An international group of clinicians and communication specialists describe, analyze, and explain how NSSI is communicated about, what NSSI is communicating, and how can we do a better job in communicating with others about NSSI. This book’s fundamental purpose is to empower individuals who self-injure as well as their families, friends, healthcare providers, and communities to better understand and deal with NSSI and the pressures that cause it.
Liminality in Fantastic Fiction
Liminality in Fantastic Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Liminality in Fantastic Fiction write by Sandor Klapcsik. This book was released on 2012-01-09. Liminality in Fantastic Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This critical work diversifies Victor Turner's concept of liminality, a basic category of postmodernism, in which distinct categories and hierarchies are questioned and limits erode. Liminality involves an oscillation between cultural institutions, genre conventions, narrative perspectives, and thematic binary oppositions. Grounded on this notion, the text investigates the liminality in Agatha Christie's detective fiction, Neil Gaiman's fantasy stories, and Stanislaw Lem's and Philip K. Dick's science fiction. Through an examination of destabilized norms, this analysis demonstrates that liminality is a key element in the changing trends of fantastic texts.
