New perspectives on contemporary German science fiction / Lars Schmeink, Ingo Cornils, editors.
Schmeink, Lars, editor.; Cornils, Ingo, editor.
2022
PT747.S34 N49 2022
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New perspectives on contemporary German science fiction / Lars Schmeink, Ingo Cornils, editors.
ISBN
9783030959630 electronic book
3030959635 electronic book
9783030959623 hardcover
3030959627 hardcover
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95963-0
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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©2022
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English
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1 online resource (xv, 317 pages) : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-030-95963-0 doi
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PT747.S34 N49 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
833.0876209092
Summary
New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of paradigm shifts in society. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils bring together essays that study the renaissance of German SF in the twenty-first century. The volume makes clear that German SF is both global and localthe genre is in balance between internationally dominant forms and adapting them to Germanys reality as it relates to migration, the environment, and human rights. The essays explore a range of media (literature, cinema, television) and relevant political, philosophical, and cultural discourses.-- Provided by publisher.
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Lars Schmeink is Research Fellow at the Europa-Universitat Flensburg, Germany. For 2022, he has received a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a researcher in the FutureWork research project of the German Ministry of Education at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is the founder of the Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung and has served as president of the board from 2010 to 2019. He has published widely on science fiction, the fantastic, and popular culture, including The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (co-editor, 2020); Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (co-editor, 2018); Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), Collision of Realities (co-editor, 2012), and Fremde Welten (co-editor, 2012). Ingo Cornils is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on science fiction, edited two special issues of the academic journal literatur fur leser on German language science fiction co-edited, with Ricarda Vidal, the volume Alternative Worlds: Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900 (2015), and authored of the monograph Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Century (2020).
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Schmeink, Lars, editor.
Cornils, Ingo, editor.
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Studies in global science fiction.
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Introduction : New perspectives / Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils
Going round in cycles : Time travel and determinism in the Netflix show Dark / Juliane Blank
Popular German science fiction film and European migration / Gabriele Mueller
White German agency in the science fiction films Transfer (2020), Die kommenden Tage (2010), Hell (2011) / Evan Torner
Apocalyptic greeneries : Climate, vegetation and the end of the world / Solvejg Nitzke
The language of ice in the Anthropocene : German science fiction and eco-literature / Matteo Gallo Stampino
Environmental destruction and misogyny in Karen Duve's novel Macht / Clarisa Novello
The paradoxes of illness and health in Juli Zeh's Corpus Delicti / Mylène Branco
Coming to terms with the present : Critical theory and critical posthumanism in contemporary German science fiction / Hanna Schumacher
The end of humanity's monotony : Posthumanism and artificial life in Dietmar Dath's The Abolition of Species and Venus' Victory / Roland Innerhofer
Optimizing the human : A posthuman taxonomy in the works of Theresa Hannig / Lars Schmeink
Marc-Uwe Kling's QualityLand : "Funny dystopia" as social and political commentary / Joscha Klüppel
Beyond the 'last man' narrative : Notes on Thomas Glavinic's Night Work (2018) / Kristina Mateescu
A utopianism that trandscends books : Dirk C. Fleck's ecological science fiction / Peter Seyferth
Conclusion : Dark mirrors? German science fiction in the twenty-first century / Ingo Cornils.

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