Under the literary microscope : science and society in the contemporary novel /
"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."
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
2021
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| Series: | AnthropoScene.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
