Nina (Hrsg.) Engelhardt

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Human and Temporal Connectivities

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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 connec… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hoydis, Julia (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-030-19492-5
EAN: 9783030194925
Produktnummer: 34609766
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 228 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.2 cm 301 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 301

Über den Autor

Nina Engelhardt is Assistant Professor at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She is author of Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics (2018) and has co-edited several special issues, including Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices (2017) and Above. Degrees of Elevation (2020). She has previously held research and teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh) and the University of Cologne.Julia Hoydis is Assistant Professor at the University of Cologne, Germany. She is author of Tackling the Morality of History: Ethics and Storytelling in the Works of Amitav Ghosh (2011). Co-edited volumes and special issues include 21st Century Studies (2015), Doing Science: Texts, Patterns, Practices (2017), and Teaching the Posthuman (2019). Her second monograph, Risk and the English Novel From Defoe to McEwan, is forthcoming (2019).