Odio di forma e di sostanza: la villainization della rete in The Circle di Dave Eggers e No One Is Talking About This di Patricia Lockwood
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Internet, Internet Novel, Dave Eggers, Patricia LockwoodAbstract
This paper examines the Internet’s negative characterization in contemporary literature. In the first part I discuss how often contemporary writers choose to ignore the Internet and its effects upon society in their works of fiction. In the second part I focus on two novels, The Circle and No One Is Talking About This, that put the Internet at the center of their stories in order to criticize it.Downloads
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