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001 2013024852
003 DLC
005 20151211082157.0
008 130716s2013 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013024852
020 $a9781441183194 (hardback)
020 $z9781441114068 (ebook (epub))
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN56.H75$bT46 2013
082 00 $a809/.93353$223
084 $aLIT006000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aThomsen, Mads Rosendahl,$d1972-
245 14 $aThe new human in literature :$bposthuman visions of changes in body, mind and society after 1900 /$cMads Rosendahl Thomsen.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bBloomsbury,$c2013.
300 $a258 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Twentieth-century literature changed understandings of what it meant to be human. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, in this historical overview, presents a record of literature's changing ideas of mankind, questioning the degree to which literature records and creates visions of the new human. Grounded in the theory of Niklas Luhmann and drawing on canonical works, Thomsen uses literary changes in the mind, body and society to define the new human. He begins with the modernist minds of Virginia Woolf, Williams Carlos Williams and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's, discusses the society-changing concepts envisioned by Chinua Achebe, Mo Yan and Orhan Pamuk. He concludes with science fiction, discussing Don DeLillo and Michel Houellebecq's ideas of revolutionizing man through biotechnology. This is a study about imagination, aesthetics and ethics that demonstrates literature's capacity to not only imagine the future but portray the conflicting desires between individual and various collectives better than any other media. A study that heightens reflections on human evolution and posthumanism"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- The Triune Human 1. A systemtic view of the human 2. An emergent cultural history of the 20th century 3. History, technique, imagination 4. The new human and the medium of literature -- Self-Modernization 5. Virginia Woolf 6. William Carlos Williams 7. Louis-Ferdinand Celine --The Grand Projects 8. Chinua Achebe 9. Mo Yan 10. Orhan Pamuk -- The Final Frontier 11. Literature as lab 12. Don DeLillo 13. Michel Houellebecq -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHuman body and technology in literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.$2bisacsh