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" Contemporary fiction and science from Amis to McEwan : "
Rachel Holland.
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861563
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Holland, Rachel
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Contemporary fiction and science from Amis to McEwan : : the third culture novel /\ Rachel Holland.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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, ©2019
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine
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1 online resource
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303016375X
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: 9783030163754
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9783030163747
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Two Cultures Revisited; Transcendental Scientism; Narrating Science; The Third Culture Novel; Why Science, Why Now?; Critical Perspectives; The Shape of the Book; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Two Cultures in Competition: Martin Amis's The Information and Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd; Our Stylish Universe: Martin Amis's The Information; Structure and Event: William Boyd's Brazzaville Beach; Bibliography; Chapter 3 The Postneuronovel: Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers and Thinks ... by David Lodge
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Chasing the Quale: A Brief Overview of the Science of Consciousness'the Immaterial in Mortal Garb': Richard Powers' Galatea 2.2; Cognitive Reorganization: A Lesson for the Teacher in David Lodge's Thinks ... ; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Michel Houellebecq and the Possibilities of Fiction; Atomised: Outstripping the Suture; The Speculations of Quentin Meillassoux; The Possibility of an Island: Nothingness and Kitsch; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Scientific Transcendentalism: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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'The Moral of This Long Story': Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections'Ars Longa Vita Brevis': Bioliterature in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Ian McEwan and the Aeroplane View; The Internal Struggles of Saturday; The Facts of the Matter in Solar; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Bibliography; Index
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This book identifies, in contemporary fiction, a new type of novel at the interface of science and the humanities, working from the premise that a shift has taken place in the relations between the two cultures in the last two or three decades. As popular science comes to assume an ever greater cultural significance, contemporary authors are engaging in new ways with ideas that it disseminates. A new literary phenomenon is emerging, in which the focus on language-based theories of the self and the world that has been predominant in the latter half of the previous century is making way for a renewed commitment to the material facts, both of human existence and the universe beyond subjectivity. The book analyses the work of Martin Amis, William Boyd, David Lodge, Richard Powers, Michel Houellebecq, Jonathan Franzen, Margaret Atwood, and Ian McEwan, revealing the ways in which these 'third culture novels' negotiate the relationship between literature and science.
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Literature and science.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Literature and science.
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809.9336
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PN55
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