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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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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-8150 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- 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"--
- Subjects
- 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