Representations of science in twenty-first-century fiction : human and temporal connectivities /: human and temporal connectivities. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nina Engelhardt, Julia Hoydis, editors.
• Editors: Engelhardt, Nina; Hoydis, Julia
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.9336; Science in literature; Literature and science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030194901; 3030194906
• Related ISBNs: 9783030194895
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2019).
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