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20 produkter
Anthropocene Reading
Literary History in Geologic Times
Av Tobias Menely, Jesse Oak Taylor
Inbunden, 2017
1486 kr
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Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and …
Anthropocene Reading
Literary History in Geologic Times
Av Tobias Menely, Jesse Oak Taylor
Häftad, 2017
434 kr
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Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and …
Editing the Soul
Science and Fiction in the Genome Age
Inbunden, 2017
1422 kr
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Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic life: once the stuff of science fiction, twentieth- and twenty-first-century advancements blur the lines between scientific narrative and scientific fact. This examination of bioengineering in popular and literary …
Love in a Time of Slaughters
Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction
Av Susan McHugh
Häftad, 2019
479 kr
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Love in a Time of Slaughters examines a diverse array of contemporary creative narratives in which genocide and extinction blur species lines in order to show how such stories can promote the preservation of biological and cultural diversity in a time of man-made threats to species survival.From …
Love in a Time of Slaughters
Human-Animal Stories Against Genocide and Extinction
Av Susan McHugh
Inbunden, 2019
1872 kr
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Love in a Time of Slaughters examines a diverse array of contemporary creative narratives in which genocide and extinction blur species lines in order to show how such stories can promote the preservation of biological and cultural diversity in a time of man-made threats to species survival.From …
Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination
Inbunden, 2020
1055 kr
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How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism.The discovery in 1820 of a mysterious relationship between …
Electromagnetism and the Metonymic Imagination
Häftad, 2021
439 kr
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How does the imagination work? How can it lead to both reverie and scientific insight? In this book, Kieran M. Murphy sheds new light on these perennial questions by showing how they have been closely tied to the history of electromagnetism.The discovery in 1820 of a mysterious relationship between …
Fragments from the History of Loss
The Nature Industry and the Postcolony
Av Louise Green
Inbunden, 2020
1628 kr
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The Anthropocene’s urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as the “Anthropocene,” “the great …
Fragments from the History of Loss
The Nature Industry and the Postcolony
Av Louise Green
Häftad, 2021
348 kr
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The Anthropocene’s urgent message about imminent disaster invites us to forget about history and to focus on the present as it careens into an unthinkable future. To counter this, Louise Green engages with the theoretical framing of nature in concepts such as the “Anthropocene,” “the great …
Elemental Narratives
Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy
Inbunden, 2020
1487 kr
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Over the past century, the Italian landscape has undergone exceedingly rapid transformations, shifting from a mostly rural environment to a decidedly modern world. This changing landscape is endowed with a narrative agency that transforms how we understand our surroundings. Situated at the juncture …
Elemental Narratives
Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy
Häftad, 2025
532 kr
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Over the past century, the Italian landscape has undergone exceedingly rapid transformations, shifting from a mostly rural environment to a decidedly modern world. This changing landscape is endowed with a narrative agency that transforms how we understand our surroundings. Situated at the juncture …
Under the Literary Microscope
Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel
Av Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1317 kr
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“Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the …
Under the Literary Microscope
Science and Society in the Contemporary Novel
Av Sina Farzin, Sina Farzin m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
466 kr
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“Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the …
Fear and Nature
Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene
Av Christy Tidwell, Carter Soles
Inbunden, 2021
1830 kr
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Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world—killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the environment, and even scientists build on popular conceptions of zoology, ecology, and the scientific …
Fear and Nature
Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene
Av Christy Tidwell, Christy Tidwell m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
466 kr
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Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world—killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the environment, and even scientists build on popular conceptions of zoology, ecology, and the scientific …
Art of Identification
Forensics, Surveillance, Identity
Av Rex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1579 kr
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable acceleration in the development of the techniques used to confirm identity. From fingerprints to photographs to DNA, we have been rapidly amassing novel means of identification, even as personal, individual identity remains a complex …
Art of Identification
Forensics, Surveillance, Identity
Av Rex Ferguson, Rex Ferguson m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
466 kr
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Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable acceleration in the development of the techniques used to confirm identity. From fingerprints to photographs to DNA, we have been rapidly amassing novel means of identification, even as personal, individual identity remains a complex …
Oil Fictions
World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere
Av Stacey Balkan, Swaralipi Nandi
Inbunden, 2021
1644 kr
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Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture but also its power, Oil Fictions stages a …
Oil Fictions
World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere
Av Stacey Balkan, Stacey Balkan m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
466 kr
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Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture but also its power, Oil Fictions stages a …
Editing the Soul
Science and Fiction in the Genome Age
Häftad, 2017
400 kr
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Personal genome testing, gene editing for life-threatening diseases, synthetic life: once the stuff of science fiction, twentieth- and twenty-first-century advancements blur the lines between scientific narrative and scientific fact. This examination of bioengineering in popular and literary …
