Literary Reference Center - powered by EBSCOhost: The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in ... - 0 views
-
-
taylor jacques on 13 Dec 11Argument-Coupland is moving away from his normal as a realism writer and becoming a more fictional writer.
-
taylor jacques on 13 Dec 11Claim- As Girlfriend in a Coma progresses it becomes obvious that Coupland focuses less of the first third that is realism and centers the plot around the last two-thirds which are a mixutre of a zombie apocalypse and miracles that most realist writers would not put a thought too.
-
taylor jacques on 13 Dec 11Evidence- 1) "Girlfriend in a Coma deploys Coupland's trademark slacker realism for only a third of the text before presenting a mysterious apocalypse, a libidinous ghost, and an assortment of miracles."
-
taylor jacques on 13 Dec 112) "One might decide that Coupland has moved into the fantasy genre"
-
-
One might decide that Coupland has moved into the fantasy genre