Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction Human and Temporal Connectivities /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Engelhardt, Nina (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Hoydis, Julia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• 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.; Technology in literature.; Fiction.; Contemporary Literature.; Literature and Technology/Media.

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 c...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Connectivities Between Literature and Science in the Twenty-First Century
• 2. The Rise of Psychopharmacological Fiction
• 3. Neuropathologies: Cognition, Technology, and the Network Paradigm in Scott Bakker's Neuropath and Dave Eggers's The Circle
• 4. New Science, New Stories: Quantum Physics as a Narrative Trope in Contemporary Fiction. - 5. Digital Technologies and Concrete Poetry: Word, Algorithm, Body
• 6. Towards a Posthumanist Conceptualization of Society: Biotechnology in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam Trilogy and Ruth Ozeki's All Over Creation
• 7. Genealogies of Genetics: Historicising Contemporary Science in Simon Mawer's Mendel's Dwarf and A.S. Byatt's A Whistling Woman
• 8. The Lures and Limitations of the Natural Sciences: Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree
• 9. "It's for Fellows only!": On the Postcolonial Stance of Matthew Brown's Maths Film The Man Who Knew Infinity
• 10. Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and the Technologies of Modernism
• 11. Identity, Memory, and Technoscientific Ethics: Limits, Edges, and Borders in The Forbidden Zone. .