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Plato, New Media Technologies, and the Contemporary Novel
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 51, Number 1, March 2018
- pp. 179-195
- 10.1353/mos.2018.0011
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Abstract:
In a world of new media and rapid technological change the nature and status of representation—both aesthetic and political—evolve. Is this why we are experiencing a soul-searching “Platonic turn”? Contemporary works of fiction by José Saramago, Peter Ackroyd, and Dave Eggers rework the cave and mirror analogies of The Republic.
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