Global, national and regional intersections in the fiction of Douglas Coupland

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Global, national and regional intersections in the fiction of Douglas Coupland

This thesis explores the global, local and regional intersections of Douglas Coupland’s Vancouver fiction. Observing that Coupland’s generation came of age during the most recent and most intense phase of globalisation, I postulate that Coupland’s work shows how globalisation has affected his and s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walls, Rachel
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2007
Subjects:	Douglas Coupland fiction literature globalisation Vancouver novels national regional home apocalypse
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13009/

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