Representations of science in twenty-first-century fiction : human and temporal connectivities / Nina Engelhardt, Julia Hoydis, editors.
Engelhardt, Nina, editor.; Hoydis, Julia, editor.
2019
PN55 .R47 2019
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Title Representations of science in twenty-first-century fiction : human and temporal connectivities / Nina Engelhardt, Julia Hoydis, editors.
ISBN 9783030194901 (electronic book)
3030194906 (electronic book)
9783030194895
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number PN55 .R47 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.9336
Summary 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.
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Added Author Engelhardt, Nina, editor.
Hoydis, Julia, editor.
Series Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Connectivities between Literature and Science in the Twenty-First Century, Nina Engelhardt and Julia Hoydis
Chapter 2: The Rise of Psychopharmacological Fiction, Natalie Roxburgh
Chapter 3: Neuropathologies: Cognition, Technology, and the Network Paradigm in Scott Bakkers Neuropath and Dave Eggerss The Circle, Julius Greve
Chapter 4: New Science, New Stories: Quantum Physics as a Narrative Trope in Contemporary Fiction, Kanta Dihal
Chapter 5: Digital Technologies and Concrete Poetry: Word, Algorithm, Body, Paola Carbone
Chapter 6: Towards a Posthumanist Conceptualization of Society: Biotechnology in Margaret Atwoods MaddAddam Trilogy and Ruth Ozekis All Over Creation, Pia Balsmeier
Chapter 7: Genealogies of Genetics: Historicising Contemporary Science in Simon Mawers Mendels Dwarf and A.S. Byatts A Whistling Woman, Paul Hamann
Chapter 8: The Lures and Limitations of the Natural Sciences: Frances Hardinges The Lie Tree, Elizabeth E.J. Gilbert
Chapter 9: 'Its for Fellows only!: On the Postcolonial Stance of Matthew Browns Maths Film The Man Who Knew Infinity, Norbert Schaffeld
Chapter 10: Thomas Pynchons Against the Day and the Technologies of Modernism, Simon de Bourcier
Chapter 11: Identity, Memory, and Technoscientific Ethics: Limits, Edges, and Borders in The Forbidden Zone, Ellen Moll.

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