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Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction By Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction by Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

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Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction Summary

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction by Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era.

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About Gerald Alva Miller Jr.

Gerald Alva Miller, Jr. is currently an English Instructor at Alamance Community College.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory 1. Variables of the Human: Gender and the Programmable Subject in Samuel R. Delany's Triton 2. The Human as Desiring Machine: Anime Explorations of Disembodiment and Evolution 3. The Eversion of the Virtual: Postmodernity and Control Societies in William Gibson's Science Fictions of the Present 4. The Spectacle of Memory: Realism, Narrative, and Time Travel Cinema Conclusion Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke's 2001

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NLS9781349442348
9781349442348
1349442348
Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction by Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
Gerald Alva Miller Jr.
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2012-12-05
238
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