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

• Main Author: Holland, Rachel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.