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GS Speculative Fiction

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  • The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman

    Author(s):
    Jay Clayton (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Biopolitics, Literature and science, Science fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    #bioethics, #genetics, posthumanism, Posthumanism

  • Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire

    Author(s):
    Carl Gelderloos (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Austria, Germanic literature, Germany, Area studies
    Item Type:
    Book review
    Tag(s):
    Utopia, German studies

  • “Stutter-Stop Flash-Bulb Strange”: GMOs and the Aesthetics of Scale in Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl

    Author(s):
    Scott Selisker (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    Ecocriticism , GS Speculative Fiction, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Literature and science, Speculative fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    automaton, GMO, scale, Environment

  • The Cult and the World System: The Topoi of David Mitchell's Global Novels

    Author(s):
    Scott Selisker (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, Speculative and Science Fiction, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    British literature, Religion--Social aspects, Literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Sociology of religion, World literature

  • Re-Evaluating Suvin: Brown Girl in the Ring as Effective Magical Dystopia

    Author(s):
    Lee Skallerup Bessette (see profile)
    Date:
    2008
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, LLC Canadian, Postcolonial Literature, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Caribbean literature, Speculative fiction
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Postcolonial literature

  • NOTES 1984

    Author(s):
    James Gifford (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, TM The Teaching of Literature
    Subject(s):
    British literature
    Item Type:
    Course material or learning objects
    Tag(s):
    OEW2017

  • Blackness & Utopia

    Author(s):
    André Carrington (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC African American, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
    Subject(s):
    American literature--African American authors, Digital humanities, Literature--Philosophy, Teaching
    Item Type:
    Syllabus
    Tag(s):
    apocalypse, early african american, utopia, African American literature, Literature and philosophy, Pedagogy

  • Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do

    Author(s):
    Karl Steel (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    CLCS Medieval, GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
    Subject(s):
    Literature, Medieval, Queer theory
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Medieval literature

  • Ugly Bodies, Pretty Bodies Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and the Inhumanity of Culture

    Author(s):
    Anastasia Salter (see profile)
    Date:
    2011
    Group(s):
    GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature, GS Speculative Fiction
    Subject(s):
    Young adult literature
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    children's literature, identity, dystopia

  • the coming heath death of the science fiction universe - against heteronomy

    Author(s):
    Julian Grajewski (see profile)
    Date:
    2004
    Group(s):
    GS Prose Fiction, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Philosophy and Literature, TC Popular Culture, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    Economics and literature, Literature--Philosophy, Literature and science, Metaphysics
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    2666, creativity, fiction, jack kerouac, speculative realism, Epistemology, Literature and economics, Literature and philosophy

  • The Anachronistic Ada: Inventing a Twenty-First-Century Public for a Nineteenth-Century Programmer

    Author(s):
    Eileen McGinnis (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    GS Comics and Graphic Narratives, GS Life Writing, GS Speculative Fiction
    Subject(s):
    Literature and science
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    anachronism, biography, comics, mla16, Session 425

  • Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism

    Author(s):
    Caroline Edwards (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German, TC Marxism, Literature, and Society, TC Philosophy and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    Aesthetics, Culture--Study and teaching, Germanic literature, Philosophy
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    critical theory, Frankfurt School, genre studies, literary theory, utopia, Cultural studies, Literary theory

  • Rethinking the Arcadian Revenge: Metachronous Times in the Fiction of Sam Taylor

    Author(s):
    Caroline Edwards (see profile)
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Marxism, Literature, and Society, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    British literature, Ecocriticism
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    british literature, contemporary literature, ecocriticism, Messianism, speculative realism, Environmental humanities, Literary theory

  • Microtopias: The Post-apocalyptic Communities of Jim Crace's The Pesthouse

    Author(s):
    Caroline Edwards (see profile)
    Date:
    2009
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities, TC Marxism, Literature, and Society, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
    Subject(s):
    British literature, Ecocriticism, Humanities, Ecology
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    british literature, contemporary fiction, ecocriticism, speculative realism, utopia, Environmental Humanities, Literary theory

  • Chapter 16: Witnessing History According to the Refracted Testimony of Gravity's Rainbow and Reading Autobiographical Interests of both Author and Reader in the Context of the Code-Changing Paradigm of Aesthetic Semiosis

    Author(s):
    Edwin Lambert Hetfield (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century, GS Speculative Fiction, LSL Linguistics and Literature, TC Science and Literature
    Subject(s):
    American literature, Literature and history, Linguistics, History, Modern
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    contemporary fiction, intellectual history, narrative theory, postmodernism, Epistemology, History and literature, Modern history

  • Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland

    Author(s):
    Louise Bethlehem (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    CLCS Global Anglophone, CLCS Global South, GS Speculative Fiction, LLC African since 1990, TC Postcolonial Studies
    Subject(s):
    Africa, History, African literature, Culture--Study and teaching, Ethics
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    citizenship, contemporary fiction, global south, urbanism, African history, Cultural studies

  • Annihilated Time, Smooth Surfaces, and Rough Edges in Steampunk and Schivelbusch’s _The Railway Journey_: A Departure Point

    Author(s):
    Rachel Bowser (see profile) , Brian Croxall (see profile)
    Date:
    2015
    Group(s):
    GS Speculative Fiction, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
    Subject(s):
    Culture--Study and teaching, Literature and science
    Item Type:
    Conference paper
    Tag(s):
    Cultural studies

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