Charles Darwin's looking glass : The theory of evolution and the life of its author in contemporary British fiction and non-fiction. Transatlantic studies in British and North American culture ; Vol. 11.

Oramus, Dominika:

ISBN 10: 3631658702 / ISBN 13: 9783631658703

Edité par Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang, 2015

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150 p. A perfect copy. - Summary: The book offers a comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Analysing the uses of the evolutionary discourse in recent literature and films, the study demonstrates how natural science influences the contemporary humanities and how literary conventions are used to make scientific and popular-science texts intelligible and attractive. Charles Darwin s Looking Glass shows how and why today s culture gazes upon the myth of Darwin, his theory, and his life in order to find its own reflection. - Table of Contents: Introduction: Charles Darwin's Looking Glass -- The Voyages of Charles Darwin in Recent Fiction and Non-Fiction -- History and Simulation in Thorvald Steen's Don Carlos and Giovanni and Roger McDonald's Mr. Darwin's Shooter -- Depictions of Emma Darwin in Recent British Non-Fiction -- Recent Fiction about Charles Darwin: Peter Nichols, Harry Thompson, and John Darnton -- References to the Theory of Evolution in the Novels of John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, and Hilary Mantel -- Echoes of the Mid-19th-century Spiritual Crisis in Selected Contemporary Texts Referencing Charles Darwin -- Darwin's Problem with Human Ancestry as Reflected in Recent Fiction -- Darwinism and the Humanities -- The Motif of Human Evolution in Selected -- Fiction and Non-Fiction -- Annie Dillard and Kurt Vonnegut on the Galapagos Archipelago as the Archetypal Darwinian Setting. ISBN 9783631658703 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 297.

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• Titre: Charles Darwin's looking glass : The theory of evolution and the life of its author in contemporary British fiction and non-fiction. Transatlantic studies in British and North American culture ; Vol. 11.
• Éditeur: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3631658702
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783631658703
• Reliure: Original hardcover, 22 cm.
• État de l'article: Wie neu
• Poids: 297 grammes
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The book offers a comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Analysing the uses of the evolutionary discourse in recent literature and films, the study demonstrates how natural science influences the contemporary humanities and how literary conventions are used to make scientific and popular-science texts intelligible and attractive. Charles Darwin's Looking Glass shows how and why today's culture gazes upon the myth of Darwin, his theory, and his life in order to find its own reflection.

À propos de l?auteur

Dominika Oramus is professor at the University of Warsaw. She teaches at the Institute of English Studies. Her special interests are 20th century British fiction and the poetics of postmodernism, Angela Carter and J.G. Ballard.