Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan The Third Culture Novel /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Holland, Rachel (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Fiction.; Contemporary Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades. As popular science comes to assume an ever greater cult...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Two cultures in competition: Martin Amis's The Information and Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
• Chapter 3: The postneuronovel: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers and Thinks...by David Lodge
• Chapter 4: Michel Houellebecq and the possibilities of fiction
• Chapter 5: Scientific transcendentalism in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Chapter 6: Ian McEwan and the aeroplane view
• Chapter 7: Conclusion.