Signs in science : despair and emptiness.

Never Let Me Go, The Stone Gods, The Possibility Of An Island are texts that demonstrate a world created by means of the non-real. This process is best understood if we approach the texts through Jean Baudrillard’s three orders of simulacra: imitation, production and simulation. The characters exper...

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Main Author: Tham, Tammy Samantha.
Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2009
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-188932019-12-10T12:27:31Z Signs in science : despair and emptiness. Tham, Tammy Samantha. Andrew Corey Yerkes School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Literature Never Let Me Go, The Stone Gods, The Possibility Of An Island are texts that demonstrate a world created by means of the non-real. This process is best understood if we approach the texts through Jean Baudrillard’s three orders of simulacra: imitation, production and simulation. The characters experience intensified fragmentation and loss when they become aware that they live in a world of simulation. The result is a pessimistic outlook of the future. Bachelor of Arts 2009-07-23T08:40:32Z 2009-07-23T08:40:32Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18893 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf
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