TY - BOOK ID - 79521030 TI - Representations of science in twenty-first-century fiction : human and temporal connectivities AU - Engelhardt, Nina AU - Hoydis, Julia PY - 2019 SN - 9783030194895 9783030194901 PB - Cham Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern KW - Literature and technology. KW - Mass media and literature. KW - Fiction. KW - Contemporary Literature. KW - Literature and Technology. KW - Fiction Literature. KW - Fiction KW - Metafiction KW - Novellas (Short novels) KW - Novels KW - Stories KW - Literature KW - Novelists KW - Literature and mass media KW - Industry and literature KW - Technology and literature KW - Technology KW - 20th century. KW - 21st century. KW - Philosophy KW - Science KW - Thematology KW - anno 2000-2099 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79521030 AB - 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. ER -