Widening the Net: Knowledge and the Novel in the Internet Age Ghent University
The ever-increasing availability of information, made possible by the Internet today, transforms the way people perceive and acquire knowledge. This project maps the effects of this epistemological shift in the literary form of the novel, hypothesizing that the notion of the sublime helps us understand how literary fiction dramatizes it. The sublime aesthetic, which presents the unpresentable, reflects the way the unfathomable scope of the ...