Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction
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2012
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1st ed. 2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-44234-8 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-44234-8 (ISBN)
Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.
Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. is currently an English Instructor at Alamance Community College.
Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory 1. Variables of the Human: Gender and the Programmable Subject in Samuel R. Delany's Triton 2. The Human as Desiring Machine: Anime Explorations of Disembodiment and Evolution 3. The Eversion of the Virtual: Postmodernity and Control Societies in William Gibson's Science Fictions of the Present 4. The Spectacle of Memory: Realism, Narrative, and Time Travel Cinema Conclusion Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke's 2001
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.08.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
| Zusatzinfo | X, 238 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Schlagworte | Critical theory • Fiction • Gender • narrative • Realism • Technology • Time |
| ISBN-10 | 1-349-44234-8 / 1349442348 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-44234-8 / 9781349442348 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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