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Urban nothingness as a postmodern concept in Paul Auster’s Fiction

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa. / The aim of this investigation is to discover and analyze the ways in which Paul Auster, through his narrative, conveys a postmodernist view of man and his environment, specifically through a recurrent theme of his fiction: Nothingness. Nothingness is herewith regarded as a characteristic of the post-modern, fragmented city- urban nothingness- and the effects of this nothingness dimension upon the city’s inhabitants is further analysed.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UCHILE/oai:repositorio.uchile.cl:2250/110295
Date January 2005
CreatorsDurán Cid, Daniela
ContributorsSandoval G., Enrique, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Departamento de Lingüística
PublisherUniversidad de Chile
Source SetsUniversidad de Chile
LanguageSpanish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeTesis
RightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/

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