Exploring the Limits of the Human Through Science Fiction

Zusatztext Informationen zum Autor Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. is currently an English Instructor at Alamance Community College. Klappentext Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era. Zusammenfassung Through its engagement with different kinds of texts! Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory! and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory 1. Variables of the Human: Gender and the Programmable Subject in Samuel R. Delany's Triton 2. The Human as Desiring Machine: Anime Explorations of Disembodiment and Evolution 3. The Eversion of the Virtual: Postmodernity and Control Societies in William Gibson's Science Fictions of the Present 4. The Spectacle of Memory: Realism, Narrative, and Time Travel Cinema Conclusion Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke's 2001

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Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory 1. Variables of the Human: Gender and the Programmable Subject in Samuel R. Delany's Triton 2. The Human as Desiring Machine: Anime Explorations of Disembodiment and Evolution 3. The Eversion of the Virtual: Postmodernity and Control Societies in William Gibson's Science Fictions of the Present 4. The Spectacle of Memory: Realism, Narrative, and Time Travel Cinema Conclusion Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke's 2001

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• Authors: G. Miller, Gerald A. Miller, Gerald Alva Miller, Gerald Alva Miller Jr, MILLER JR GERALD ALVA, Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2012
• EAN: 9781137262851
• ISBN: 978-1-137-26285-1
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century; American Literature Readings i; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy