1. Introduction.- 2. "Mediating the Moon: Ferdinand Kriwet's Apollo Mission", Kurt Beal.- 3. "Writing the Elements at the End of the World: Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi", Anindita Banerjee.- 4. "The Aesthetic Textuality of Oil", Brent Ryan Bellamy.- 5. "Literature and Energy", Jordan B. Kinder and Imre Szeman.- 6. "Triangulate: Literature and the Sciences Mediated by Computing Machines", Yves Citton.- 7. "Behaviorism and Literary Culture", Scott Selisker.- 8. "I'm Dying To!: Biopolitics, Suicide Plots, and The Ecstasy of Withdrawal", Dana Seitler.- 9. Science, Literature, and the Work of the Imagination", Bishnupriya Ghosh.- 10. "Edith Wharton's Microscopist and the Science of Language", Emily Coit.- 11. "Reading Generously: Scientific Criticism, Scientific Charity, and the Matter of Evidence", Todd Carmody.- 12. "Literary Studies in a Transdisciplinary Research Project: Genetic Privacy and the Case of Henrietta Lacks", Jay Clayton and Claire Sisco King.- 13. "Incantatory Fictions and Golden Age Nostalgia: Futurist Practices in Contemporary Science Fiction", Rebecca Wilbanks.- 14. "Reading Science: SF and the Uses of Literature", Amy C. Chambers and Lisa Garforth.- 15. "Linguistic Relativity and Cryptographic Translation in Samuel Delany's Babel-17", Joseph Fitzpatrick.- 16. "Autopoiesis between Literature and Science: Maturana, Varela, Cervantes", Avery Slater.- 17. "Listening to Pandemics: Sonic Histories and the Biology of Emergence", Robert Peckham.- 18. To Feel an Equation: Physiological Aesthetics, Modern Physics, and the Poetry of Jay Wright", Steven Meyer.- 19. Max Ritvo's Precision Poetry", Lara Choksey.- 20. New Physics, New Faust: Faustian Bargains in Physics before the Atomic Bomb", Jenni G. Halpin.- 21. "The Matter of In-Vitro Meat: Speculative Genres of Future Life", Coleman Nye.- 22. "Bodies Made and Owned: Rewriting Life in Science and Fiction", Sherryl Vint.- 23. "The Sciences of Mind and Fictional Pharmaceuticals in White Noise and The Corrections", Natalie Roxburgh.- 24. "Eugenic Aesthetics: Literature as Evolutionary Instrument in the Early Twentieth Century", Kyla Schuller.- 25. "Angry Optimism: Climate Disaster and Restoration in Kim Stanley Robinson's Alternate Futures", Everett Hamner.- 26. "Oil and Energy Infrastructures in Science Fiction Short Stories", Chris Pak.- 27. "Biology at the Border of Area X: The Significance of Skin in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy", Sofia Ahlberg.- 28. "Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers's Gain", Jeff Gonzalez.- 29. "'Golden Dust' in the Wind: Genetics, Contagion, and Early Twentieth-Century American Theatre", Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.- 30. "The Art and Science of Form: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson and F. O. Matthiessen at Mid-century", S.H. Daw.- 31. "Racial Science and the Neo-Victorian Novel", Josie Gill.- 32. "W.E.B. Du Bois's Neurological Modernity: I.Q., Afropessimism, Genre", Michael Collins.- 33. "Graphic Bombs: Scientific Knowledge and the Manhattan Project in Comic Books", Lindsay Michael Banco.- 34. "'The Path of Most Resistance': Surgeon X and the Graphic Estrangement of Antibiosis", Lorenzo Servitje.- 35. "
Описание: Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate - from James's The Ambassadors to McCarthy's The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time "before theory." Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.
Описание: Postcolonial Disaster studies literary fiction about crises of epic proportions in contemporary South Asia and Southern Africa: the oceanic disaster in Sri Lanka, the economic disaster in Zimbabwe, the medical disaster in South Africa and Botswana, and the geopolitical disaster in India and Pakistan. Pallavi Rastogi argues that postcolonial fiction about catastrophe is underpinned by a Disaster Unconscious, a buried but mobile agenda that forces disastrous events to narrate themselves. She writes that in disaster fiction, a literary Story and its real-life Event are in constant dialectic tension. In recent disasters, Story and Event are tied together as the urgency to circulate information and rebuild in the aftermath of the disaster dictates the flow of the narrative. As the Story acquires temporal distance from the Event, such as the seventy-three years since the partition of India in 1947, it plays more with form and theme, to expand beyond a tale about an all-consuming tragedy. Story and Event are in a constant dance with each other, and the Disaster Unconscious plays the tune to which they move. Rastogi creates a narratology for postcolonial disaster fiction and brings concepts from Disaster Studies into the realm of literary analysis.
Автор: Matthias Stephan Название: Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century ISBN: 3030156923 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030156923 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10480.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book presents a definition of literary postmodernism, using detective and science fictions as a frame. Through an exploration of both prior theoretical approaches, and indicators through characteristics of postmodernist fiction, this book identifies a structural framework to both understand and apply the lessons of postmodernism for the next generation. Within a growing consensus that the postmodern era has passed, this book examines the different conceptions of postmodernism and posits a meaningful definition, one which can provide the foundation for future literary expression. This theory is then applied to genre fiction, particularly detective fiction and science fiction, demonstrating that postmodernism is found in the structure, rather than questions posed about literary expression. Finally, Matthias Stephan considers post-postmodern movements, and how they can be expressed given this definition of literary postmodernism, moving forward to the twenty-first century.
Автор: Anneke Lubkowitz Название: Haunted Spaces in Twenty-First Century British Nature Writing ISBN: 3110678594 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110678598 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 18586.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This study investigates the figure of haunting in the New Nature Writing. It begins with a historical survey of nature writing and traces how it came to represent an ideal of ‘natural’ space as empty of human history and social conflict. Building on a theoretical framework which combines insights from ecocriticism and spatial theory, the author explores the spatial dimensions of haunting and ‘hauntology’ and shows how 21st-century writers draw on a Gothic repertoire of seemingly supernatural occurrences and spectral imagery to portray ‘natural’ space as disturbed, uncanny and socially contested. Iain Sinclair and Robert Macfarlane are revealed to apply psychogeography’s interest in ‘hidden histories’ and haunted places to spaces associated with ‘wilderness’ and ‘the countryside’. Kathleen Jamie’s allusions to the Gothic are put in relation to her feminist re-writing of ‘the outdoors’, and John Burnside’s use of haunting is shown to dismantle fictions of ‘the far north’. This book provides not only a discussion of a wide range of factual and fictional narratives of the present but also an analysis of the intertextual dialogue with the Romantic tradition which enfolds in these texts.
Описание: Examining key novels by Michel Houellebecq, Frederic Beigbeder, Aurelien Bellanger, Yann Moix, and other French writers, Christy Wampole identifies and critiques an emergent tendency toward "degenerative realism."
This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book beyond Russia itself to examine women and gender relations in the Soviet ‘East’ (Tatarstan), Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). Within the boundaries of the Russian Federation, the scope moves beyond the typically studied urban centres of Moscow and St Petersburg to examine the regions (Krasnodar, Novosibirsk), rural societies and village life. Its chapters examine the construction of gender identities and shifts in gender roles during the twentieth century, as well as the changing status and roles of women vis-a-vis men in Soviet political institutions, the workplace and society more generally.
This volume draws on a broad range of disciplinary and methodological approaches currently being employed in the academic field of Russian studies. The origins of the individual contributions can be identified in a range of conventional subject disciplines – history, literature, sociology, political science, cultural studies – but the chapters also adopt a cross- and inter-disciplinary approach to the topic of study. This handbook therefore builds on and extends the foundations of Russian women’s and gender studies as it has emerged and developed in recent decades, and demonstrate the international, indeed global, reach of such research
Автор: McClanahan Annie Название: Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture ISBN: 0804799059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804799058 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both popular entertainment and avant-garde art, the post-crisis productions examined here help to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, microeconomic theory to anti-eviction activism. A searing critique of the ideology of debt, Dead Pledges dismantles the discourse of moral obligation so often invoked to make us repay. Debt is no longer a source of economic credibility, it contends, but a system of dispossession that threatens the basic fabric of social life.
The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy', ̒Genres', ̒Gender' (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.
Автор: O`Brien, Phil Название: The Working Class and Twenty-First-Century British Fiction ISBN: 0367441489 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367441487 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Phil O`Brien argues that the novels explored in this work offer ways of understanding fundamental aspects of contemporary capitalism for the working class in modern Britain, including class struggle, inequality, trauma, social abjection, racism, and stigmatization.
Описание: In The University is Closed for Open Day, Stephen Knight explores aspects of ultra-modern Australia, from tattoos, shabby chic and our obsession with personal devices, to the 'poetry' of number plates. Other critiques explore national myths and consider the recurring conflict over 'White Australia or Fair Australia?' The essays debate the meanings and misinterpretations of environmentalism, reveal the surprising riches of Australian crime fiction, and end with the title essay, which examines the wide and serious changes made to Australia's-and the world's-university system in recent times. Here, Knight resumes his ironic observation of the allegedly Great South Land, as previously offered in The Selling of The Australian Mind and Freedom Was Compulsory.
Автор: Paige Reynolds Название: The New Irish Studies: Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions ISBN: 1108473997 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108473996 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13622.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a pioneering critical account of twenty-first-century Irish literature and culture, underscoring the crucial role that contemporary writing plays in representing and influencing rapidly changing conditions in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It unsettles presumptions about what constitutes an Irish classic.
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