Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination write by Elana Gomel. This book was released on 2010-10-28. Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the lens of science fiction, this book investigates representations of time in postmodernism.
Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction
Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction write by Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones. This book was released on 2015-03-16. Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction examines the fascination with suicidal crises evident in a range of science fiction. Carlos Gutiérrez-Jones argues that the theme of creative self-destruction is invoked by H. G. Wells as a means of negotiating Victorian anxieties regarding evolutionary theory, by Stanislaw Lem as he wrestles with the prospect of nuclear self-destruction at the dawn of the space age, by William Gibson as he considers the development of artificial intelligence, by Christopher Nolan as he explores the cybernetic colonization of the unconscious, by Rian Johnson as he links aspects of video gaming to the neoliberal militarization of institutions, and by Margaret Atwood as she considers impending ecological disaster and the rise of bioterrorism. These authors often depict such scientific and technological changes in a fashion that requires the central characters to transform themselves in hopes of remaining relevant in a radically altered environment.
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination write by Anne-Marie Evans. This book was released on 2020-11-18. Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the representation of a range of literary cities from across the world and consider how an understanding of time, and time passing, can impact on our understanding of the primary texts. Literature necessarily deals with time, both as a function of storytelling and as an experience of reading. In this volume, the contributions demonstrate how literature about cities brings to the forefront the relationship between individual and communal experience and time.
Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction
Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction write by Sonia Front. This book was released on 2015-09-04. Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book addresses the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in the theories of the new physics, utilized as a thematic and formal framework in the British novel of the twenty-first century. As the Newtonian conception of reality does not provide a reliable framework within which to situate human experience and generate meaning, fiction writers have recognized quantum mechanics as a potent source from which to draw in search of new metaphors. The quantum has become a part of the understanding of reality, and its concepts and assumptions have been absorbed into the textual structure and content of literary fiction. Shapes of Time in British Twenty-First Century Quantum Fiction examines human temporality as mediated by the timeshapes imagined within the context of the new physics, and explores the philosophical implications for human temporality and identity of situating an individual within the realm of physical time. Its chapters deal with various concepts of the new physics connected with temporality, and their appropriation in a selected novel: parallel universes in Andrew Crumey’s Sputnik Caledonia (2008), eternal recurrence and Poincaré’s theorem in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004), chaos theory in Samantha Harvey’s The Wilderness (2009), and the end of time in Scarlett Thomas’s The End of Mr. Y (2006). Each of them corresponds to a different conceptual shape of time: tree, concertina, spiral and snapshot, respectively, which is enacted on the formal level. Analyzing the new time constructs in a narrative, this book thus uncovers passages between scientific and humanistic standpoints, and reveals quantum fiction to be an effective tool for visualizing the subjective non-homogenous experience of private time.
Imagining the Unimaginable
Imagining the Unimaginable - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imagining the Unimaginable write by Glyn Morgan. This book was released on 2020-01-23. Imagining the Unimaginable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction's treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre's major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pulitzer Prize winners, building on scholarship across disciplines, including Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and science fiction studies. The conventional discourse around the Holocaust is one of the unapproachable, unknowable, and the unimaginable. The Holocaust has been compared to an earthquake, another planet, another universe, a void. It has been said to be beyond language, or else have its own incomprehensible language, beyond art, and beyond thought. The 'othering' of the event has spurred the phenomenon of non-realist Holocaust literature, engaging with speculative fiction and its history of the uncanny, the grotesque, and the inhuman. This book examines the most common forms of nonmimetic Holocaust fiction, the dystopia and the alternate history, while firmly positioning these forms within a broader pattern of non-realist engagements with the Holocaust.
