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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero
The Information Age: Message and Meaning

Chapter Outline

  1. Historical Context
    1. developments in information technology
      1. television
      2. computers
    2. the birth of space exploration
    3. new directions in science and philosophy
      1. string theory
      2. chaos theory
      3. mapping the human genome
      4. language theory
  2. Postmodernism
  3. Literature in the Information Age
    1. postmodern poetry: Paz, Ashbery, and Walcott
    2. magic realism: Allende
    3. the literature of social conscience
      1. poetry: Snyder and Szymborska
      2. prose: Achebe and Oates
    4. science fiction and film








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