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Under the Literary Microscope : Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel / / edited by Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes |
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University Park, Pennsylvania, : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021] |
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©[2021] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series |
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Soggetti |
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Science in literature |
Science fiction |
Essays |
Science fiction - History and criticism |
Science in literature - Social aspects |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Science Under the Literary Microscope -- Part 1 Background and Context -- 1 Science and Society in Recent Fiction -- 2 From Individual to Collective Knowledge Production: A Brief Nonfiction History -- 3 Between Mad and Mundane: Mixed Stereotypical and Realistic Portrayals of Science in Contemporary Fiction Media -- Part 2 Embedded Science Societal Impacts on Scientific Work and Knowledge -- 4 Scientists at Risk -- 5 Speculative Fiction and the Significance of Plausibility: Dystopian Science in the Critical Response to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- 6 When the Scientist Is a Woman: Novels and Feminist Science Studies -- 7 Economization of Science: Insights from Science Novels -- Part 3 Cause and Effect? Science and Its Societal Outcomes -- 8 The Science Fiction of Technological Modernity: Images of Science in Recent Science Fiction -- 9 Unruly Creatures, Obstinate Things: Bio- Objects and Scientific Knowledge Production in Contemporary Science Fiction |
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-- 10 A Fictional Risk Narrative and Its Potential for Social Resonance: Reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior in Reviews and Reading Groups -- Contributors -- Index |
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"A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation and the socioeconomic and political spheres" |
Science and society in recent fiction / Natalie Roxburgh and Jay Clayton -- From individual to collective knowledge production : a brief nonfiction history / Peter Weingart and Luiz María Hernández Nieto -- Between mad and mundane : mixed stereotypical and realistic portrayals of science in contemporary fiction media / Luiz María Hernández Nieto and Peter Weingart -- Scientists at risk / Roslynn D. Haynes and Raymond Haynes -- Speculative fiction and the significance of plausibility : dystopian science in the critical response to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Anna Auguscik, Sina Farzin, Emanuel Herold, and Anton Kirchhofer -- When the scientist is a woman : novels and feminist science studies / Carol Colatrella -- Economization of science : insights from science novels / Uwe Schimank -- The science fiction of technological modernity : images of science in recent science fiction / Sherryl Vint -- Unruly creatures, obstinate things : bio-objects and scientific knowledge production in contemporary science fiction / Karin Hoepker and Antje Kley -- A fictional risk narrative and its potential for social resonance : reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behavior in reviews and reading groups / Sonja Fücker, Anna Auguscik, Anton Kirchhofer, and Uwe Schimank. |
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