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035 _a(DE-B1597)616345
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050 0 0 _aPN3433.5
_b.W55 2017
072 7 _aLIT004260
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWillems, Brian
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSpeculative Realism and Science Fiction /
_cBrian Willems.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.) :
_b1 B/W illustrations 1 B/W tables
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aSpeculative Realism : SPRE
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tSeries Editor’s Preface --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 The Zug Effect --
_t2 Divine Paraphrase: Cormac McCarthy --
_t3 Double-Vision: Neil Gaiman --
_t4 Subtraction and Contradiction: China Miéville --
_t5 Tension and Phase: Doris Lessing --
_t6 Animal Death: Paolo Bacigalupi --
_t7 Transcription: Kim Stanley Robinson --
_tConclusion --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aImagines the end of anthropocentrism through contemporary science fiction and speculative realismA human-centred approach to the environment is leading to ecological collapse. One of the ways that speculative realism challenges anthropomorphism is by taking non-human things to be as valid objects of investivation as humans, allowing a more responsible and truthful view of the world to take place. Brian Willems uses a range of science fiction literature that questions anthropomorphism both to develop and challenge this philosophical position. He looks at how nonsense and sense exist together in science fiction, the way in which language is not a guarantee of personhood, the role of vision in relation to identity formation, the difference between metamorphosis and modulation, representations of non-human deaths and the function of plasticity within the Anthropocene. Willems considers the works of Cormac McCarthy, Paolo Bacigalupi, Neil Gaiman, China Miéville, Doris Lessing and Kim Stanley Robinson are considered alongside some of the main figures of speculative materialism including Graham Harman, Quentin Meillassoux and Jane Bennett.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
650 0 _aAnthropomorphism.
650 0 _aScience fiction
_xHistory and criticism
_xTheory, etc.
650 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781474422710
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474422710
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