Contemporary Fiction and Science from Amis to McEwan

The Third Culture Novel

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Holland, Rachel

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211 Seiten

Englisch

Springererschienen am08.05.20191st ed. 2019

This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades.mehr

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KlappentextThis book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-16374-7

ProduktartBuch

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Verlag

Springer

Erscheinungsjahr2019

Erscheinungsdatum08.05.2019

Auflage1st ed. 2019

ReihePalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Seiten211 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht416 g

IllustrationenIX, 211 p.

Artikel-Nr.46153274

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Two cultures in competition: Martin Amis´s The Information and Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd.- Chapter 3: The postneuronovel: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers and Thinks...by David Lodge.- Chapter 4: Michel Houellebecq and the possibilities of fiction.- Chapter 5: Scientific transcendentalism in Jonathan Franzen´s The Corrections and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.- Chapter 6: Ian McEwan and the aeroplane view.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.mehr