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The new human in literature : posthuman visions of changes in body, mind and society after 1900

Title
The new human in literature : posthuman visions of changes in body, mind and society after 1900 / Mads Rosendahl Thomsen.
Author
Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl, 1972-
Publication
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

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Description
258 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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"--
Subject
  • Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Human body and technology in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Part 1. The Triune Human: 1. A systemtic view of the human; 2. An emergent cultural history of the twentieth century; 3. History, technique, imagination; 4. The new human and the medium of literature -- Part 2. Self-Modernization: 5. Virginia Woolf; 6. William Carlos Williams; 7. Louis-Ferdinand Céline -- Part 3. The Grand Projects: 8. Chinua Achebe; 9. Mo Yan; 10. Orhan Pamuk -- Part 4. The Final Frontier: 11. Literature as lab; 12. Don DeLillo; 13. Michel Houellebecq -- Conclusion.
Call Number
JFE 13-8150
ISBN
  • 9781441183194 (hardback)
  • 1441183191 (hardback)
  • 9781441114068 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1441114068 (ePub) (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781472531254 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
  • 1472531256 (ePDF) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2013024852
  • 60001833294
OCLC
849209843
Author
Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl, 1972-
Title
The new human in literature : posthuman visions of changes in body, mind and society after 1900 / Mads Rosendahl Thomsen.
Publisher
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.
Other Standard Identifier
60001833294
Research Call Number
JFE 13-8150
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