Jonathan Raban's Novel "Surveillance" and Its Criticism of Surveillance in the American Society After 9/11


Term Paper (Advanced seminar), 2010

25 Pages, Grade: 1,7


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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

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Title
Jonathan Raban's Novel "Surveillance" and Its Criticism of Surveillance in the American Society After 9/11
College
University of Bayreuth  (Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen /Amerikanistik)
Course
HS 9/11 and American Literature
Grade
1,7
Author
Year
2010
Pages
25
Catalog Number
V163941
ISBN (eBook)
9783640792733
ISBN (Book)
9783640792924
File size
625 KB
Language
English
Keywords
Jonathan, Raban, Novel, Surveillance, Criticism, Surveillance, American, Society, After
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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