Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Human and Temporal Connectivities
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Beschreibung
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 intimes to come.
Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
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 intimes to come.
Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Focuses on contemporary literature and science, posthumanism, and literature and ethics Contributes interdisciplinary perspectives to the study of epistemology Examines topics including realism, nostalgia, and narrative
Autor*in
Nina Engelhardt
Themen in »Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction«
science fiction speculative fiction science and literature medicine and literature posthumanism technology and literature epistemology knowledge transformation realism in science fiction
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“In this exciting new volume of critical essays on the forms, histories, and interventions of twenty-first-century fictions of science, the editors and contributors draw our attention to a growing and vibrant field. The range and accessibility of the work is to be applauded, and it is likely to inspire other scholars to further excavate the rich examinations of science offered by our contemporary literary traditions.” (Martin Willis, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University, UK)
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