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Under the literary microscope : science and society in the contemporary novel / edited by Sina Farzin, Susan M. Gaines, and Roslynn D. Haynes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- AnthropoScene
- AnthropoScene: the SLSA book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science in literature.
- Science in literature--Social aspects.
- Science fiction--History and criticism.
- Science fiction.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume.)
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Science and society in recent fiction / Natalie Roxburgh and Jay Clayton
- From individual to collective knowledge production : a brief nonfiction history / Peter Weingart and Luiz María Hernández Nieto
- Between mad and mundane : mixed stereotypical and realistic portrayals of science in contemporary fiction media / Luiz María Hernández Nieto and Peter Weingart
- Scientists at risk / Roslynn D. Haynes and Raymond Haynes
- Speculative fiction and the significance of plausibility : dystopian science in the critical response to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Anna Auguscik, Sina Farzin, Emanuel Herold, and Anton Kirchhofer
- When the scientist is a woman : novels and feminist science studies / Carol Colatrella
- Economization of science : insights from science novels / Uwe Schimank
- The science fiction of technological modernity : images of science in recent science fiction / Sherryl Vint
- Unruly creatures, obstinate things : bio-objects and scientific knowledge production in contemporary science fiction / Karin Hoepker and Antje Kley
- A fictional risk narrative and its potential for social resonance : reception of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight behavior in reviews and reading groups / Sonja Fücker, Anna Auguscik, Anton Kirchhofer, and Uwe Schimank.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271090115
- 0271090111
- Publisher Number:
- 40030538653
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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