On Reality and Virtuality: A Study of Time-Spaces in "Plowing the Dark."
This article focuses on the novel "Plowing the Dark" by Richard Powers which deals on the boundaries between virtual and real spaces. It explains that in his novel, time-spaces served as the organizing principles which governs the interactions among people. It adds that in this novel, Power plays on...
| Publicado en: | Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 95 - 109 |
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Sep2009
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| Sumario: | This article focuses on the novel "Plowing the Dark" by Richard Powers which deals on the boundaries between virtual and real spaces. It explains that in his novel, time-spaces served as the organizing principles which governs the interactions among people. It adds that in this novel, Power plays on the reader's resistance to characterizing the virtual world as real and attempts to establish the cultural consensus of readers for the distinction of reality from imagination. |
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