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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction The Genre of the Non-Place: Science Fiction as Critical Theory
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Science Fictions of Estrangement
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Science Fictions of the Present
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Conclusion Beyond the Human: Ontogenesis, Technology, and the Posthuman in Kubrick and Clarke’s 2001
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'Miller explores the unique theoretical work performed by the genre of science fiction as it shapes the meaning of science, and experience generally. The theoretical dimensions of the genre mingle in this study with the utopian impulses that he sees as intrinsic to any effort to define the human. Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction takes us into the heart of the fantastic to show how the genre turns the far reaches of the human imagination into spaces from which new social configurations and relational possibilities emerge. In his panoramic sweep of the genre, Miller shows how science fiction turns possibility into lived experience.' Priscilla Wald, Professor, Duke University and author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
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Book Title: Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction
Authors: Gerald Alva Miller
Series Title: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330796
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-26285-1Published: 05 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44234-8Published: 05 December 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33079-6Published: 04 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2634-579X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5803
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 238
Topics: Literary History, Fiction, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature