“The New Heroism” in Jennifer Egan’s “Black Box”

This article analyses the concept of “the new heroism” in Jennifer Egan’s 2012 Twitter fiction “Black Box.” The article compares the Twitter fiction reader to the video game player and applies some notions from video games in navigating the digital environment of Twitter. Moving on to the fictional...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mairi Power
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Glasgow 2022-01-01
Series:Press Start
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Online Access:http://press-start.gla.ac.uk/index.php/press-start/article/view/209