Heather Duerre Humann

Another Me

The Doppelganger in 21st Century Fiction, Television and Film

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Produktbeschreibung

A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character's sinister look-alike--continues to appear in literature, television and film. The modern-day version (of the Doppelganger, or "double-goer" in German) is typically depicted in a form adapted to reflect present-day social anxieties. Focusing on a broad range of narratives, the author explores 21st century representations in novels (such as Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry, Jose Saramago's The Double), television shows (Orphan Black, Battlestar Galactica, Ringer) and movies (The Island, The Prestige, Oblivion).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 273g
• ISBN-13: 9781476671765
• ISBN-10: 1476671761
• Artikelnr.: 49226158

Autorenporträt

Heather Duerre Humann teaches in the Department of Language and Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University. She has contributed essays to edited collections and published articles, reviews and short stories in African American Review, Women's Studies, South Atlantic Review and Studies in American Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Monster in the Mirror Section I. Literature
1.
Twinning in Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry
2.
The Pursuit of Self? José Saramago's The Double
3.
The Ethics of Cloning in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
4.
Through a Machine Darkly: Blake Crouch's Dark Matter
5.
Technology and the Self in Dexter Palmer's Version Control
6.
Clones (and Crime) in Space: Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes Section II. Television and Film
7.
The Twin Formula in Ringer and The Lying Game
8.
The Motif of the Double in Fringe and Battlestar Galactica
9.
Westworld, the 21st Century Technoculture Take on Doubles 10.
Clones and Cultural Anxieties in Orphan Black 11.
Cinematic Clones in The Island and Oblivion 12.
Monstrous Doubling and Magical Illusion in The Prestige Conclusion: Cultural Anxieties and Doppelgangers in the 21st Century Bibliography Index