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This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction, including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry. This collection considers how texts engage with science and technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in life today, in times past, and in times to come. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Literature, Modern --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Fiction. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Literature and Technology. --- Fiction Literature. --- 20th century. --- 21st century.
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Literaire schrijvers vormen vandaag de dag een vanzelfsprekend onderdeel van de mediacultuur: ze zijn actief op social media, schrijven columns, schuiven aan bij talkshows en geven interviews aan zowel kwaliteitskranten als aan de 'Libelle'. Auteurs zijn gaandeweg de belangrijkste factor geworden in de promotie van hun werk, waardoor een schrijver er tegenwoordig niet aan ontkomt om de wijde wereld van de media in te trekken en ?de mens achter het boek? uit te venten.0In 'De literatuur draait door' laat Sander Bax zien hoe het schrijverschap van de 21ste eeuw sterk beïnvloed wordt door de wetten van deze mediacultuur. Maar is er in al dit spektakel nog wel ruimte voor ?echte? literatuur die vernieuwend of tegendraads is? Aan de hand van een aantal bekende 0casussen waarin deze nieuwe positie van schrijvers prominent en publiekelijk naar voren komt demonstreert Bax deze wisselwerking tussen literatuur en entertainment. Maar ondanks al het gesomber over ?de dood van de literatuur? biedt hij vooral ook een hoopgevend perspectief.
Littérature et société. --- Médias et littérature. --- Littérature et société --- Médias et littérature --- Authors, Dutch --- Mass media and literature --- Literature and society --- Social change --- Sociology of occupations --- Sociology of literature --- 839.3.09 --- 839.3.09 Nederlandse literatuur: literaire kritiek --- Nederlandse literatuur: literaire kritiek --- Authors, Dutch - 21st century --- Mass media and literature - Netherlands --- Literature and society - Netherlands
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This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction, including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry. This collection considers how texts engage with science and technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in life today, in times past, and in times to come. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Literature, Modern --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Fiction. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Literature and Technology. --- Fiction Literature. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Literature and mass media --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Philosophy --- Science --- Thematology --- anno 2000-2099
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This book examines several distinctive literary figurations of posthuman embodiment as they proliferate across a range of internationally acclaimed contemporary novels: clones in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, animal-human hybrids in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, toxic bodies in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, and cyborgs in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods. While these works explore the transformational power of the “biotech century,” they also foreground the key role human capital theory has played in framing human belonging as an aspirational category that is always and structurally just out of reach, making contemporary subjects never-human-enough. In these novels, the dystopian character of human capital theory is linked to fantasies of apocalyptic release. As such, these novels help expose how two interconnected genres of futurity (the dystopian and the apocalyptic) work in tandem to propel each other forward so that fears of global disaster become alibis for dystopian control, which, in turn, becomes the predicate for intensifying catastrophes. In analyzing these novels, Justin Omar Johnston draws attention to the entanglement of bodies in technological environments, economic networks, and deteriorating ecological settings. .
Fiction. --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Technology in literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Literature and Technology/Media. --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Human body and technology in literature. --- Biotechnology in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Literature and Technology. --- Literature and mass media --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Technology --- 20th century. --- 21st century.
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