Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction
PART I: LEAKING OCEANS
1. Narrative Without Borders: Reading Graham Greene in the Information Age
2. Apocalypse Then and Now: The Road, Lord of the Flies, and the Ends of Knowledge
PART II: UNSOUND WAVES
3.Through a Border Darkly: North Atlantic Narratives of Exploitation in Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and Annie Proulx's The Shipping News
4. A Post-Atlantic Divorce: Reading and Writing Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in the Digital Age
PART III: THE COASTLESS SEA
5. Bridging Bereavement: Narratives of Loss and Loss of Narrative in Anne Michaels
6. Future Perfect: The Problem of the Human in Michel Houellebecq's Atomised and Philip Roth's The Human Stain
Conclusion