Julia Hoydis

Ulla Kriebernegg

Nassim W. Balestrini

Anna-Christina Kainradl

"This collection presents the first substantial encounter between aging studies and ecocriticism. By putting both fields into conversation, it addresses competing ideologies of efficiency, exploitation, and endurance versus those of sustenance, care, and survival"--

Interdisciplinary Encounters

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism

Christine Garbe

Christina Gürth

Frank Münschke

Andreas _Seidler

Uta Woiwod

Erzählmuster und Beispielanalysen zu populärer Kinder- und Jugendliteratur

Attraktive Lesestoffe (nicht nur) für Jungen

Roman Bartosch

The present collection takes stock of posthumanism and its theoretical development and impact in the field of Anglophone literary and cultural studies, with a particular focus on its role in education and the practice of teaching English.0Posthumanism informs work in environmental or ecological criticism, climate change research, or human-animal studies ? and poses an educational challenge since it also affects curricular and pedagogic theory and practice. Moreover, humanist idea(l)s of subject formation and individually acquired competences have a direct bearing on conceptions of education. This is why the volume interrogates the potentials and pitfalls of posthumanist pedagogies and its connections with digitization, multiliteracies, non-European and non-anthropocentric thinking, and the role of literature pedagogy more generally, presenting case studies of teaching the posthuman from primary to tertiary levels.

Teaching the Posthuman

Nina Engelhardt

This collection of essays explores current thematic and aesthetic directions in fictional science narratives in different genres, predominantly novels, but also poetry, film, and drama. The ten case studies, covering a range of British and American texts from the late twentieth to the twenty-first centuries, reflect the diversity of representations of science in contemporary fiction, including psychopharmacology and neuropathology, quantum physics and mathematics, biotechnology, genetics, and chemical weaponry. This collection considers how texts engage with science and technology to explore relations between bodies and minds, how such connectivities shape conceptions and narrations of the human, and how the speculative view of science fiction features alongside realist engagements with the Victorian period and modernism. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, contributors offer new insights into narrative engagement with science and its place in life today, in times past, and in times to come.

Human and Temporal Connectivities

Representations of Science in Twenty-First-Century Fiction

Taking the cue from the currency of risk in popular and interdisciplinary academic discourse, this book explores the development of the English novel in relation to the emergence and institutionalization of risk, from its origins in probability theory in the late seventeenth century to the global ‘risk society’ in the twenty-first century. Focussing on 29 novels from Defoe to McEwan, this book argues for the contemporaneity of the rise of risk and the novel and suggests that there is much to gain from reading the risk society from a diachronic, literary-cultural perspective. Tracing changes and continuities, the fictional case studies reveal the human preoccupation with safety and control of the future. They show the struggle with uncertainties and the construction of individual or collective ‘logics’ of risk, which oscillate between rational calculation and emotion, helplessness and denial, and an enabling or destructive sense of adventure and danger. Advancing the study of risk in fiction beyond the confinement to dystopian disaster narratives, this book shows how topical notions, such as chance and probability, uncertainty and responsibility, fears of decline and transgression, all cluster around risk.

From Defoe to McEwan

Risk and the English Novel

Julia Hoydis

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