Paradigms of paranoia: the culture of conspiracy in contemporary american fiction
Auteur :
Coale, Samuel Chase
Éditeur :
The University of Alabama Press
ISBN :
9780817359508
Date de publication :
14 mai 2019
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Argues that contemporary culture - a landscape characterized by doubt, ambiguity, fragmentation, information overload, and mistrust - has fostered a radical scepticism so pervasive that the tendency to envision or construct conspiracies often provides the best explanation for the chaos that surrounds us.