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Table of Contents
I. Introduction
II. The author
III. The topic of surveillance
III.a. What does surveillance conceptually mean?
III.b. Surveillance and the Bush-administration: The USA PATRIOT Act
III.c. Reasons apart from 9/11 for increased surveillance in our time
III.c.1. The World Wide Web
III.c.2. Globalisation and the “clash of cultures”
III.d. Surveillance – pro and contra
IV. The criticism of surveillance in connection with the novel’s writing style
IV.a. The setting
IV.b. The narrator’s point of view
IV.c. The structure of the plot
V. The critcism of surveillance in connection with the novel’s content
V.a. Lucy and surveillance
V.b. Tad and surveillance
V.c. August and surveillance
V.d. Charles O. and surveillance
V.e. Alida and surveillance
V.f. Finn and surveillance
VI. Summary
VII. Works cited
- Quote paper
- B.A: Uwe Mehlbaum (Author), 2010, Jonathan Raban's Novel "Surveillance" and Its Criticism of Surveillance in the American Society After 9/11, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/163941
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