Miller Jr. Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-33079-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Miller Jr., Gerald Alva

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. is currently an English Instructor at Alamance Community College.