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Title LIVING IN THE TIMES OF AUGMENTED REALITY: A METAMODERNIST AND PSEUDO-MODERNIST CRITIQUE OF SELECTED CONTEMPORARY BRITISH FICTION

Author(s) MOHIB ALI KHAN NATIONAL

Abstract The present research is an attempt to focus on the fictional representation of not only the impact on the human sensibility of the excessive interaction with the internet or social media to receive information and news in the contemporary age, but also of the way one’s frequent engagement with the cyberspace impacts one’s emotional state, allowing that person to both escape the physical world and create some imaginative information, which is based on possibilities. Firstly, the shifts triggered in the psychic patterns of Olivia Laing’s protagonist due to her excessive interaction with the internet or social media in Crudo are explored to explain her intriguing oscillation between the opposing poles of contentment and discontentment. Secondly, the representative pseudo-modern emotional condition that takes in Nikesh Shukla’s hero in Meatspace because of his own act of frequently engaging with the internet is studied. The research is qualitative in its approach and carries out a textual analysis of the two novels by using the critical notions proposed by the prominent contemporary scholars, Vermeulen and Akker, and Kirby with reference to metamodernism and pseudo-modernism respectively. This critical enquiry adds some insightful literary consciousness into the contemporary scholarship concerning an individual’s life in the age of internet.

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Language English

Publication Date 2022-12-05

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