Brian Willems

Speculative Realism and Science Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian Willems draws on the science fiction of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson alongside speculative materialists including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett, to try and imagine the end of anthropomorphism.

Produktdetails

• Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9781474422703
• ISBN-10: 1474422705
• Artikelnr.: 47879771

Autorenporträt

Brian Willems is Assistant Professor of literature and film at the University of Split, Croatia. He is the author of Hopkins and Heidegger (Continuum, 2009), Facticity, Poverty and Clones: On Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go (Atropos Press, 2010) and Shooting the Moon (Zero Books, 2015). He is co-editor of The First Ten Years of English Studies in Split (Split University, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Zug Effect
2. Divine Paraphrase: Cormac McCarthy
3. Double-Vision: Neil Gaiman
4. Subtraction and Contradiction: China Miéville
5. Tension and Phase: Doris Lessing
6. Animal Death: Paolo Bacigalupi
7. Transcription: Kim Stanley Robinson
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index.