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Title Narrating life : experiments with human and animal bodies in literature, science and art / edited by Stefan Herbrechter
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Experimental practices ; volume 20
Experimental practices (Brill Rodopi (Firm)) ; v. 20.
Contents Narrating life in literature. In my core I have the strange impression that I don't belong to the human species: Clarice Lispector's Agua viva as life writing? / Elisabeth Friis -- Charting Solar Systems, Exoplanets and Earth 2.0 / Holly Henry -- Species Encounters: 0. Butler Meets Haraway Meets Deleuze and Guattari / Tomldema -- Solid-State Fiction: J.G. Ballard and the Crystallization of Life / Moritz Ingwersen -- Dissonance, Data, and DNA: Aesthetics, Biopolitics and Transgenic Music in Richard Powers' Orfeo / Cristina Iuli -- Chromosomal Cuties", UFembots", a chatty Cyber Trio" or ucantankerous Clones"? Lynn Hershman Leeson's Teknolust / Tania Nusser -- Submarine Experiments with Human Lives by Chrismoph -- Ransmayr- a waterman narrates / Manuela Rossini -- InToxicating Languages of Bioinformatic Circulation: Poetics and Other "Smallwork" in The Flame Alphabet / Laura Shackelford -- Life beyond "critique": Murakami after Latnur / Jeff Wallace -- Aporias of Survival: Kafka's Alien Incursion / Dominik Zechner -- The Atlas of Man (If by Man We Also Mean Woman) / Steve Tomasula -- Narrating Life in Science. Linear Time and Revolutionary Time: Humans, Apes, and Temporality in Scientific and Literary Narratives / Amelie Bjorck -- Ecolinguistic Activism: How and Why to Rite / Angela Rawlings -- Death Writing: Toward a Bestiary of the Biological Real / Dorion Sagan -- Experimenting with bones / Marianne Sommer -- The Sponge Diver or Bodies on the Seabed / Amalie Smith
Summary Narrating Life explores the relationship between literature, science and the arts and the way in which they are informed by the process of narrating life. More specifically, it asks: how do literature, science and the arts affect and are affected by the emergence of a critical culture of biopolitics and its rhetorical figurations? Its topicality for literary and cultural studies lies therefore in its exploration of the question: to what extent could narratives of life (or life-writing) be understood as a special practice through which to access the contemporary discussion about biopolitics with its strategies of immunity, mutation, and contagion. The individual contributions address these questions through focusing on new forms of life writing in traditional and new media, science writing and artistic and critical creative practice. In doing so, they also explore and redraw the boundaries between fictional and factual experimental practices. Contributors: Amelie Björck, Elisabeth Friis, Holly Henry, Stefan Herbrechter, Tom Idema, Moritz Ingwersen, Cristina Iuli, Tanja Nusser, Angela Rawlings, Manuela Rossini, Dorion Sagan, Laura Shackelford, Amalie Smith, Marianne Sommer, Steve Tomasula, David Wagner , Jeff Wallace, Dominik Zechner
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Literature and science.
Life in literature.
Human body in literature.
Science in literature.
Scientific literature -- History and criticism
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
Human body in literature
Life in literature
Literature and science
Science in literature
Scientific literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Herbrechter, Stefan, editor
LC no. 2016007874
ISBN 9004312072
9789004312074