The Palgrave handbook of twentieth and twenty-first century literature and science / / edited by Neel Ahuja [and nine others]

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020]; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 809.9336
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Literature and science; Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism
• Persona (resp. second.): AhujaNeel <1980->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index,
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- 2. “Mediating the Moon: Ferdinand Kriwet’s Apollo Mission”, Kurt Beal -- 3. “Writing the Elements at the End of the World: Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi”, Anindita Banerjee -- 4. “The Aesthetic Textuality of Oil”, Brent Ryan Bellamy -- 5. “Literature and Energy”, Jordan B. Kinder and Imre Szeman -- 6. “Triangulate: Literature and the Sciences Mediated by Computing Machines”, Yves Citton -- 7. “Behaviorism and Literary Culture”, Scott Selisker -- 8. “I’m Dying To!: Biopolitics, Suicide Plots, and The Ecstasy of Withdrawal”, Dana Seitler -- 9. Science, Literature, and the Work of the Imagination”, Bishnupriya Ghosh -- 10. “Edith Wharton's Microscopist and the Science of Language”, Emily Coit -- 11. “Reading Generously: Scientific Criticism, Scientific Charity, and the Matter of Evidence”, Todd Carmody -- 12. “Literary Studies in a Transdisciplinary Research Project: Genetic Privacy and the Case of Henrietta Lacks”, Jay Clayton and Claire Sisco King -- 13. “Incantatory Fictions and Golden Age Nostalgia: Futurist Practices in Contemporary Science Fiction”, Rebecca Wilbanks -- 14. “Reading Science: SF and the Uses of Literature”, Amy C. Chambers and Lisa Garforth -- 15. “Linguistic Relativity and Cryptographic Translation in Samuel Delany’s Babel-17”, Joseph Fitzpatrick -- 16. “Autopoiesis between Literature and Science: Maturana, Varela, Cervantes”, Avery Slater -- 17. “Listening to Pandemics: Sonic Histories and the Biology of Emergence”, Robert Peckham -- 18. To Feel an Equation: Physiological Aesthetics, Modern Physics, and the Poetry of Jay Wright”, Steven Meyer -- 19. Max Ritvo’s Precision Poetry”, Lara Choksey -- 20. New Physics, New Faust: Faustian Bargains in Physics before the Atomic Bomb”, Jenni G. Halpin -- 21. “The Matter of In-Vitro Meat: Speculative Genres of Future Life”, Coleman Nye -- 22. “Bodies Made and Owned: Rewriting Life in Science and Fiction”, Sherryl Vint -- 23. “The Sciences of Mind and Fictional Pharmaceuticals in White Noise and The Corrections”, Natalie Roxburgh -- 24. “Eugenic Aesthetics: Literature as Evolutionary Instrument in the Early Twentieth Century”, Kyla Schuller -- 25. “Angry Optimism: Climate Disaster and Restoration in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Alternate Futures”, Everett Hamner -- 26. “Oil and Energy Infrastructures in Science Fiction Short Stories”, Chris Pak -- 27. “Biology at the Border of Area X: The Significance of Skin in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy”, Sofia Ahlberg -- 28. “Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers’s Gain”, Jeff Gonzalez -- 29. “‘Golden Dust’ in the Wind: Genetics, Contagion, and Early Twentieth-Century American Theatre”, Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr -- 30. “The Art and Science of Form: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson and F. O. Matthiessen at Mid-century”, S.H. Daw -- 31. “Racial Science and the Neo-Victorian Novel”, Josie Gill -- 32. “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Neurological Modernity: I.Q., Afropessimism, Genre”, Michael Collins -- 33. “Graphic Bombs: Scientific Knowledge and the Manhattan Project in Comic Books”, Lindsay Michael Banco -- 34. “‘The Path of Most Resistance’: Surgeon X and the Graphic Estrangement of Antibiosis”, Lorenzo Servitje -- 35. “The Automation of Affect: Robots and the Domestic Sphere in Sinophone Cinema”, Nathaniel Isaacson -- 36. “Superman Holey Weenie and the Sick Man of Asia”, Carlos Rojas -- 37. “Modeling Long Novels: Network Analysis and A Brief History of Seven Killings”, Lindsay Thomas.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Palgrave handbook of twentieth and twenty-first century literature and science
• ISBN: 3-030-48244-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910483476403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave handbooks of literature and science.