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010 $a 2013024852
020 $a9781441183194 (hardback)
020 $a1441183191 (hardback)
020 $z9781441114068 (ebook (epub))
024 $a60001832570
035 $a(OCoLC)849209843
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn849209843
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050 00 $aPN56.H75$bT46 2013
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100 1 $aThomsen, Mads Rosendahl,$d1972-
245 14 $aThe new human in literature :$bposthuman visions of changes in body, mind and society after 1900 /$cMads Rosendahl Thomsen.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bBloomsbury Academic,$c2013.
300 $a258 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Twentieth-century literature changed understandings of what it meant to be human. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, in this historical overview, presents a record of literature's changing ideas of mankind, questioning the degree to which literature records and creates visions of the new human. Grounded in the theory of Niklas Luhmann and drawing on canonical works, Thomsen uses literary changes in the mind, body and society to define the new human. He begins with the modernist minds of Virginia Woolf, Williams Carlos Williams and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's, discusses the society-changing concepts envisioned by Chinua Achebe, Mo Yan and Orhan Pamuk. He concludes with science fiction, discussing Don DeLillo and Michel Houellebecq's ideas of revolutionizing man through biotechnology. This is a study about imagination, aesthetics and ethics that demonstrates literature's capacity to not only imagine the future but portray the conflicting desires between individual and various collectives better than any other media. A study that heightens reflections on human evolution and posthumanism"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- IntroductionThe Triune Human 1. A systemtic view of the human 2. An emergent cultural history of the 20th century 3. History, technique, imagination 4. The new human and the medium of literatureSelf-Modernization 5. Virginia Woolf 6. William Carlos Williams 7. Louis-Ferdinand Ce;lineThe Grand Projects 8. Chinua Achebe 9. Mo Yan 10. Orhan PamukThe Final Frontier 11. Literature as lab 12. Don DeLillo 13. Michel HouellebecqConclusionAcknowledgementsNotesBibliographyIndex.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHuman body and technology in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.$2bisacsh
852 00 $bglx$hPN56.H75$iT46 2013