Peter Boxall (University of Sussex)

Broschiertes Buch

The Prosthetic Imagination

Beschreibung

This book offers an account of the historical development of the novel as a means of imagining and fashioning our bodies and our environments, in order to suggest that prose fiction can help us to understand new forms of artificial life as they are emerging in the twenty-first century.

Autor

Peter Boxall is Professor of English at the University of Sussex. His books include Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction (2006), Since Beckett: Contemporary Writing in the Wake of Modernism (2009), Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction (2013), and The Value of the Novel (2015). He has edited a number of collections, including Thinking Poetry (edited with Peter Nicholls, 2013) and Beckett/Aesthetics/Politics, and an edition of Beckett's novel Malone Dies. He is co-editor, with Bryan Cheyette, of volume 7 of the Oxford History of the Novel in English (2016), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction, 1980-2018 (2019), and of the bestselling 1001 Books You Must Read before You Die (2012). He is also the editor of Textual Practice, and the series editor of Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 423
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781108819121
• ISBN-10: 1108819125
• Artikelnr.: 73390788