Chapter 1: Towards A Poetics of Dystopia -- Chapter 2: Language in Dystopia -- Chapter 3: Building Dystopian Worlds -- Chapter 4: Reading Dystopian Minds -- Chapter 5: Dystopian Ethics -- Chapter 6: Unreliability and Dystopian Refraction -- Chapter 7: Reconceiving Dystopia. Thi…
"Kai Wiegandt's study offers a nuanced, thoroughgoing and deeply engaging account of novelist J.M. Coetzee's revision of our core ideas of the human-not least the human sense of uniqueness that we have invested in our belief in reason and conviction of God-likeness. He persuasiv…
"A smart, innovative, and robust collection that offers a unique and important contribution to Motherhood Studies in its emphasis on trauma [...] an important and emergent subfield of motherhood studies and one yet to be represented or developed through an edited collection." --…
This study traces the connection of infinity and Levinasian ethics in 21st-century fiction. It tackles the paradox of how infinity can be (re-)presented in the finite space between the covers of a book and finds an answer that combines conceptual metaphor theory with concepts fr…
"What is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral news? If the study of literature today is not just about turning to classic texts with age-old questions, neither is it a rejection of close reading or critical inquiry. Through the lived experience of …
When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural indication of a shift in thinkin…
This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children's and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics. It investigates the extent to which texts for children and young adults reflect current environmental concerns. T…
Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives examines changing attitudes about national sovereignty and affiliation. Katie Daily delinks twenty-first century American immigration narratives from 9/11, examining genre alterations within a s…
Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives examines changing attitudes about national sovereignty and affiliation. Katie Daily delinks twenty-first century American immigration narratives from 9/11, examining genre alterations within a s…
Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives examines changing attitudes about national sovereignty and affiliation. Katie Daily delinks twenty-first century American immigration narratives from 9/11, examining genre alterations within a s…
Ayn Rand and the Posthuman is a study of the American novelist's relationship with twenty-first-century ideas about technology. Rand wrote science fiction that has inspired Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, politicians, and economists. Ben Murnane demonstrates Rand's connection to, …
1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman -- Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms -- 2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions -- 3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature -- 4. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Py…
