Biofictions - Literary and Visual Imagination in the Age of Biotechnology

Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: 'biofiction,' 'bioimagination,' and 'biodiscourse' to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Biofictions
2 Biopunk Now
3 Burroughs Was a Biopunk
4 Molecular and Literary Language
5 Contemporary Bioliterature
6 Female Bioborgs

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Lejla Kucukalic received her PhD in English from the University of Delaware, USA. She taught at Columbia University, USA, and the University of California Los Angeles, USA, and is currently at Khalifa University, UAE. She is the author of Philip K. Dick: Canonical Writer of the Digital Age (2008) and articles about Arabic science fiction and cross-cultural education.

Zusammenfassung

Biofictions introduces three novel concepts: ‘biofiction,’ ‘bioimagination,’ and ‘biodiscourse’ to talk about intersections of literary and visual texts and biotechnology.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Lejla Kucukalic, Kucukalic Lejla
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367676865
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67686-5
• Seiten: 120
• Serie: Routledge Focus on Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Science Fiction, Fantasy, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, FICTION / Fantasy / General, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form