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The Prosthetic Imagination - A History of the Novel as Artificial Life (Hardcover)
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The Prosthetic Imagination - A History of the Novel as Artificial Life (Hardcover)
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In The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues
that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given
bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions.
This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our bodies,
and to our environments, and Boxall suggests that the novel as a
form can guide us in this imaginative task. Across a dazzling range
of prose fictions, from Thomas More's Utopia to Margaret Atwood's
Oryx and Crake, Boxall shows how the novel has played a central
role in forging the bodies in which we extend ourselves into the
world. But if the novel has helped to give our world a human shape,
it also contains forms of life that elude our existing human
architectures: new amalgams of the living and the non-living that
are the hidden province of the novel imagination. These latent
conjunctions, Boxall argues, are preserved in the novel form, and
offer us images of embodied being that can help us orient ourselves
to our new prosthetic condition.
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