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With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international
cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and
Science traces the network of connections among literature,
science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three
main sections, this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific
disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys
current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies
to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and
science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from
classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in
cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible
volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates,
postgraduates, and researchers. With authoritative, accessible, and
succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions
and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this
vibrant area of study.
In literary studies and beyond, 'theory' and its aftermaths have
arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions,
publishers, journals, and academics. Yet the influence of theory in
its Anglo-American forms has remained reliant on Continental
European ideas. Similar patterns can be discerned within the latest
theoretical paradigm - posthumanism. European ideas influence
posthumanism's challenge to established understandings of humanism,
anthropomorphism, and anthropocentrism, which is characterised by
the increased urgency and proliferation of questions such as 'What
does it mean to be human?' and 'What is the relationship between
humans and their nonhuman others (machines, animals, plants, the
inorganic, gods, systems, and various figures of liminality, from
ghosts to angels, from cyborgs to zombies)?' European Posthumanism
examines the histories and geographies of posthumanism and looks at
the genealogies which have been at work in the rise of posthumanist
thought and culture. This book was originally published as a
special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
In literary studies and beyond, 'theory' and its aftermaths have
arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions,
publishers, journals, and academics. Yet the influence of theory in
its Anglo-American forms has remained reliant on Continental
European ideas. Similar patterns can be discerned within the latest
theoretical paradigm - posthumanism. European ideas influence
posthumanism's challenge to established understandings of humanism,
anthropomorphism, and anthropocentrism, which is characterised by
the increased urgency and proliferation of questions such as 'What
does it mean to be human?' and 'What is the relationship between
humans and their nonhuman others (machines, animals, plants, the
inorganic, gods, systems, and various figures of liminality, from
ghosts to angels, from cyborgs to zombies)?' European Posthumanism
examines the histories and geographies of posthumanism and looks at
the genealogies which have been at work in the rise of posthumanist
thought and culture. This book was originally published as a
special issue of the European Journal of English Studies.
With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international
cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and
Science traces the network of connections among literature,
science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three
main sections, this volume: links diverse literatures to scientific
disciplines from Artificial Intelligence to Thermodynamics surveys
current theoretical and disciplinary approaches from Animal Studies
to Semiotics traces the history and culture of literature and
science from Greece and Rome to Postmodernism. Ranging from
classical origins and modern revolutions to current developments in
cultural science studies and the posthumanities, this indispensible
volume offers a comprehensive resource for undergraduates,
postgraduates, and researchers. With authoritative, accessible, and
succinct treatments of the sciences in their literary dimensions
and cultural frameworks, here is the essential guide to this
vibrant area of study.
Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism is a major reference
work on the paradigm emerging from the challenges to humanism,
humanity, and the human posed by the erosion of the traditional
demarcations between the human and nonhuman. This handbook surveys
and speculates on the ways in which the posthumanist paradigm
emerged, transformed, and might further develop across the
humanities. With its focus on the posthuman as a figure, on
posthumanism as a social discourse, and on posthumanisation as an
on-going historical and ontological process, the volume highlights
the relationship between the humanities and sciences. The essays
engage with posthumanism in connection with subfields like the
environmental humanities, health humanities, animal studies, and
disability studies. The book also traces the historical
representations and understanding of posthumanism across time.
Additionally, the contributions address genre and forms such as
autobiography, games, art, film, museums, and topics such as
climate change, speciesism, anthropocentrism, and biopolitics to
name a few. This handbook considers posthumanism's impact across
disciplines and areas of study.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman is the
first work of its kind to gather diverse critical treatments of the
posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume. Fifteen
scholars from six different countries address the historical and
aesthetic dimensions of posthuman figures alongside posthumanism as
a new paradigm in the critical humanities. The three parts and
their chapters trace the history of the posthuman in literature and
other media, including film and video games, and identify major
political, philosophical, and techno-scientific issues raised in
the literary and cinematic narratives of the posthuman and
posthumanist discourses. The volume surveys the key works, primary
modes, and critical theories engaged by depictions of the posthuman
and discussions about posthumanism.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman is the
first work of its kind to gather diverse critical treatments of the
posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume. Fifteen
scholars from six different countries address the historical and
aesthetic dimensions of posthuman figures alongside posthumanism as
a new paradigm in the critical humanities. The three parts and
their chapters trace the history of the posthuman in literature and
other media, including film and video games, and identify major
political, philosophical, and techno-scientific issues raised in
the literary and cinematic narratives of the posthuman and
posthumanist discourses. The volume surveys the key works, primary
modes, and critical theories engaged by depictions of the posthuman
and discussions about posthumanism.
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