UID:
almahu_9949419567202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 402 pages) :
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60 colour illustrations.
ISBN:
9781800647510
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9781800647527
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9781800647534
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9781800647541
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9781800647558
Inhalt:
"This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century's shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination. Comprised of thirteen chapters by an international group of academics, Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance engages with four main areas of biological study: 'Invisible scales: cells, microbes and mycelium', 'Neuro-medical imaging and diagnosis', 'Pandemic imaginaries', and 'Ecological scales'. The authors examine these concepts in emerging forms such as plant theatre, climate change art, ecofiction and pandemic fiction, including the work of Jeff Vandermeer, Jon McGregor, Jeff Lemire, and Extinction Rebellion's Red Rebel Brigade performances. This valuable resource moves beyond the biological paradigms that were central to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to outline the specificity of a contemporary imagination. Life, Re-Scaled is crucial reading for academics, scholars, and authors alike, as it proposes an unprecedented overview of the relationship between literature, performance and the life sciences in the twenty-first century."--Publisher's website.
Anmerkung:
Available through Open Book Publishers.
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1. Introduction / Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine -- 2. Human Environmental Aesthetics: The Molecular Sublime and the Molecular Grotesque / Paul Hamann-Rose -- 3. Still Life and Vital Matter in Gillian Clarke's Poetry -- 4. Mycoaesthetics: Weird Fungi and Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation / Derek Woods -- 5. To Be or Not to Be a Patient: Challenging Biomedical Categories in Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed / Pascale Antolin -- 6. Neurocomics and Neuroimaging: David B.'s Epileptic and Matteo Farinella and Hana Roš's Neurocomic / Jason Tougaw -- 7. The Fiction of the Empty Pandemic City: Race and Diaspora in Ling Ma's Severance / Rishi Goyal -- 8. Dead Gods and Geontopower: An Ecocritical Reading of Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth / Kristin M. Ferebee -- 9. Depopulating the Novel: Post-Catastrophe Fiction, Scale, and the Population Unconscious / Pieter Vermeulen -- 10. The Everyday Pluriverse: Ecosystem Modelling in Reservoir 13 / Ben De Bruyn -- 11. The Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies of Climate Change Comics / Susan Squier -- 12. Displacing the Human: Representing Ecological Crisis on Stage / Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr, Hannah Simpson -- 13. Staging Larger Scales and Deep Entanglements: The Choice of Immersion in Four Ecological Performances / Eliane Beaufils.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Sprache:
Englisch
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