Under The Literary Microscope

Author : Sina Farzin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271090111
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Literary Microscope written by Sina Farzin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines the implications of the discourse taking place in and around this creative space. Exploring works by authors as disparate as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Crichton, these essays address the economization of scientific institutions; ethics, risk, and gender disparity in scientific work; the reshaping of old stereotypes of scientists; science in an evolving sci-fi genre; and reader reception and potential contributions of the novels to public understandings of science. Under the Literary Microscope illuminates the new ways in which fiction has been grappling with scientific issues—from climate change and pandemics to artificial intelligence and genomics—and makes a valuable addition to both contemporary literature and science studies courses. In addition to the editors, the contributors include Anna Auguscik, Jay Clayton, Carol Colatrella, Sonja Fücker, Raymond Haynes, Luz María Hernández Nieto, Emanuel Herold, Karin Hoepker, Anton Kirchhofer, Antje Kley, Natalie Roxburgh, Uwe Schimank, Sherryl Vint, and Peter Weingart.

Author : Emilie Taylor-Pirie
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030847179
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire Under the Microscope written by Emilie Taylor-Pirie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today.

Author : Gabriela Houston
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857668919
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Second Bell written by Gabriela Houston and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the world you are an abomination; a monster with unholy abilities. You're shunned and left to fend for yourself. Your only chance of survival is to tap into that dark potential - would you do it? In an isolated mountain community, sometimes a child is born with two hearts. Such a child - a striga - is considered a dangerous demon, which must be abandoned on the edge of the forest to protect the community. The only choice the child's mother can make is whether to leave her home with her infant, or stay behind and try to forget. Miriat made her choice. She and her nineteen-year-old striga daughter, Salka, now live a life of deprivation and hardship in a remote village, where to follow the impulses of the other heart is forbidden. But Salka is headstrong and young, and when threatened with losing everything, she is forced to explore the depths of her true nature, testing the bonds between mother and child. File Under: Fantasy [ Breaking Taboos | Hidden Shadows | Hungry Like the Wolf | Slavic Story ]

Author : David W. Swift
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution Under the Microscope written by David W. Swift and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Houen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108424511
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Affect and Literature written by Alex Houen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores a wide range of affects, affect theory, and literature to consolidate a fresh understanding of literary affect.

Author : Algernon Charles Swinburne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Microscope written by Algernon Charles Swinburne and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of Michigan
Publisher : UM Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University of Michigan, an Encyclopedic Survey ...: pt. 3. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, I. pt. 4. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, II. Summer session. pt. 5. Medical School. University Hospital. Law School written by University of Michigan and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1951 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josie Gill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350099856
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biofictions written by Josie Gill and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Winner of the 2020 British Society for Literature and Science book prize. In this important interdisciplinary study, Josie Gill explores how the contemporary novel has drawn upon, and intervened in, debates about race in late 20th and 21st century genetic science. Reading works by leading contemporary writers including Zadie Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro, Octavia Butler and Colson Whitehead, Biofictions demonstrates how ideas of race are produced at the intersection of science and fiction, which together create the stories about identity, racism, ancestry and kinship which characterize our understanding of race today. By highlighting the role of narrative in the formation of racial ideas in science, this book calls into question the apparent anti-racism of contemporary genetics, which functions narratively, rather than factually or objectively, within the racialized contexts in which it is embedded. In so doing, Biofictions compels us to rethink the long-asked question of whether race is a biological fact or a fiction, calling instead for a new understanding of the relationship between race, science and fiction.

Author : H.G. Wells
Publisher : ePenguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141441986
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Country of the Blind and other Selected Stories written by H.G. Wells and published by ePenguin. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. But it was in his short stories, written when he was a young man embarking on a literary career, that he first explored the enormous potential of the scientific discoveries of the day. He described his stories as "a miscellany of inventions," yet his enthusiasm for science was tempered by an awareness of its horrifying destructive powers and the threat it could pose to the human race. A consummate storyteller, he made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to be alive in a century of rapid scientific progress.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465454470
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Literature Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Books, let's face it, are better than anything else." Nick Hornby Turn the pages of The Literature Book to discover over 100 of the world's most enthralling reads and the literary geniuses behind them. Storytelling is as old as humanity itself. Part of the Big Ideas Simply Explained series, The Literature Book introduces you to ancient classics from the Epic of Gilgamesh written 4,000 years ago, as well as the works of Shakespeare, Voltaire, Tolstoy, and more, and 20th-century masterpieces, including Catch-22, Beloved, and On the Road. The perfect reference for your bookshelf, it answers myriad questions such as what is stream of consciousness, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, and what links the poetry of Wordsworth with that of TS Eliot. Losing yourself in a great book transports you to another time and place, and The Literature Book sets each title in its social and political context. It helps you appreciate, for example, how Dickens' Bleak House paints a picture of deprivation in 19th-century England, or how Stalin's climb to power was the backdrop for George Orwell's 1984. With succinct plot summaries, graphics, and inspiring quotations, this is a must-have reference for literature students and the perfect gift for book-lovers everywhere. Series Overview: Big Ideas Simply Explained series uses creative design and innovative graphics along with straightforward and engaging writing to make complex subjects easier to understand. With over 7 million copies worldwide sold to date, these award-winning books provide just the information needed for students, families, or anyone interested in concise, thought-provoking refreshers on a single subject.