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This book provides a substantive, reliable, and accessible comparison of the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1-11, investigating their presentation of humanistic themes such as wisdom, power, and the 'good life.' While the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1-11 are characterized by historical and cultural features that may seem unusual or challenging to modern readers, such as the intervention of gods and goddesses and talking animals, these ancient literary masterpieces are nonetheless familiar and relatable stories through their humanistic composition. This volume explores the presentation of humanistic themes and motifs throughout both stories. Significant passages and narratives, such as stories from the Garden of Eden and the Flood, are translated into English and accompanied by comprehensive discussions that compare and contrast shared ideas in both compositions. Written in a lucid and concise fashion, this book offers new insights into the Gilgamesh Epic and Genesis 1-11 in an accessible way. The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11: Peering into the Deep is suitable for students and scholars of ancient Near Eastern literature, with broad appeal across religious studies, ancient history, and World Literature.

Comparative literature --- Human beings in literature --- Humanism in literature --- Themes, motives --- Gilgamesh. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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"The Planetary Humanism of European Women's Science Fiction argues that utopian SF written by European women has, since the seventeenth century, played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination. This book focuses on six works of science fiction from the UK, France, Spain, and Italy: Jennifer Marie Brissett's Elysium; Nicoletta Vallorani's Sulla Sabbia di Sur and Il Cuore Finto di DR; Aliette de Bodard's Xuya Universe series; Elia Barcelo´'s Consecuencias Naturales; and Historias del Crazy Bar, a collection of stories by Lola Robles and Maria Concepcio´n Regueiro. It sets these in conversation with key gender and critical race scholars: Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Paul Gilroy, and Jack Halberstam. It asserts that a key concern for feminism, anti-racism, and SF now is to seek inventive ways of returning to the question of the human in the context of increasing racial and gender divisions. Offering unique access to contemporary and historical women writers who have mobilised the utopian imagination to rethink the human, this book is of use to those conducting research in Gender Studies, Philosophy, History, and Literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Gender identity in literature. --- Humanism in literature. --- Queer theory. --- Race relations in literature. --- Science fiction --- Science fiction, European --- Women authors --- History and criticism.

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"Cet ouvrage veut approfondir la réflexion qui prenait forme dans le volume Du postmodernisme au posthumanisme. Littérature et cinéma, publié en 2020. À partir des rapports parfois étroits et toujours complexes entre la crise de récits postmoderne et le posthumanisme - compris comme un système de discours dont chacun est également un outil épistémologique -, il s'agit ici de se concentrer sur l'un de ces discours, la critique de l'humanisme, lui-même pouvant se décliner en trois sous-discours, que l'on pourrait nommer abhumanisme, antihumanisme hiérarchique et antihumanisme pessimiste. Cependant, cette apparente multiplicité typologique est surtout une manière d'aborder un questionnement : comment énoncer et condenser la situation actuelle, en termes politiques, philosophiques et éthiques ? Comment faire de l'hétérogène une sorte d'homogène relatif ? Comment la littérature et le cinéma le réfléchissent, le représentent et le configurent ? Les textes ici présentés constituent une approche originale sur la question des antihumanismes, en explorant des corpus littéraires et cinématographiques du XXe et surtout du XXIe siècle. La première partie aborde des productions européennes, étatsuniennes et canadiennes, et la deuxième partie s'intéresse à plusieurs pays de l'Amérique latine, dont l'Argentine, l'Équateur et le Mexique."--Page 4 of cover.

Literature, Modern --- Motion pictures --- Posthumanism in literature. --- Posthumanism in motion pictures. --- Transhumanism in literature. --- Humanism in literature. --- Humanism in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism. --- Colloque "Du postmodernisme au posthumanisme. Littérature et cinéma, Du postmodernisme au posthumanisme. Littérature et cinéma latino-américains"