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Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues
that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex
dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and
dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as
well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though
both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical
frameworks and scrutinize “boundary texts” in different
literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical
perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging
studies, there has been little scholarly interaction between
ecocritical literary studies and aging studies to date. The
contributors in this volume demonstrate the potential of specific
genres to narrate relationality and age, and the aesthetic and
ethical challenges of imagining changes, endings, and survival in
the Anthropocene. As the first step towards putting both fields in
conversation, this collection offers new pathways into
understanding human and nonhuman ecological relations.
The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia,
with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around
the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community
from disparate regions, languages, cultural heritages, religions,
and traditions within the subcontinent. The many peoples of the
Indian diaspora have growing social and economic impacts on their
new homes, but maintain their cultural bonds with India. This
volume offers a thorough analysis of the diasporic practices of the
Indian communities in essays covering a number of fields, such as
literature, cultural studies, and film studies. The contributors
deal with the Indian diaspora's historical and contemporary
connotations, its theoretical framework, the cultural
hybridizations that emerge from diaspora, and other topics touching
on the cultural and social effects of the spread of Indian peoples
around the globe.
Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and
interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the
development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and
institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability
theory in the late seventeenth century to the global 'risk society'
in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to
McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of
risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from
reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural
perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case
studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of
the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the
construction of individual or collective 'logics' of risk, which
oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness
and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and
danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the
confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how
topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and
responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster
around risk.
This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic
directions in fictional science narratives in different genres,
predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten
case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from
the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the
diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction,
including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics
and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry.
This collection considers how texts engage with science and
technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such
connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and
how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside
realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism.
Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new
insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in
life today, in times past, and in times to come. Chapter 1 is
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via link.springer.com.
Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and
interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the
development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and
institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability
theory in the late seventeenth century to the global 'risk society'
in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to
McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of
risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from
reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural
perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case
studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of
the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the
construction of individual or collective 'logics' of risk, which
oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness
and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and
danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the
confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how
topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and
responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster
around risk.
This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic
directions in fictional science narratives in different genres,
predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten
case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from
the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the
diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction,
including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics
and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry.
This collection considers how texts engage with science and
technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such
connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and
how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside
realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism.
Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new
insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in
life today, in times past, and in times to come. Chapter 1 is
available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via link.springer.com.
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