Brian Willems

Speculative Realism and Science Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

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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. By questioning it, these writers and philosophers both develop and challenge anthropomorphism. Willems looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way that language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474422727
• Artikelnr.: 72422464

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.