Connie Willis's Science Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Doomsday Every Day
Redaktion: Turner Smith, Carissa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection argues that Connie Willis's oeuvre performs science fiction's task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly-and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000728446
• Artikelnr.: 65606403

Autorenporträt

Carissa Turner Smith is Professor of English and Writing Center Director at Charleston Southern University, where she teaches American literature. Her book Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction was published by Routledge in 2020.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I: Contagion
Chapter One: All This Has Happened Before, and All This Will Happen Again:
Doomsday Book and Recurring Pandemics
Joelle L. Renstrom
Chapter Two: Flip Passes: Interpreting Agency and Contagion in Bellwether
Jill Marie Treftz
PART II: Individual and Collective Trauma
Chapter Three: Emergency Unpreparedness: Responses to Disaster in Connie
Willis's Passage Matthew Newcomb
Chapter Four: Taking it Personally: Private Engagement with Public Trauma
from World War II to J.F.K.
Janet L. Bland
PART III: Incarnation and Embodiment
Chapter Five: "You Were Here All Along": Doomsday Book and the Bodies of
Christ
Chad Schrock
Chapter Six: Christmas Every Day: Incarnational Theology in Connie Willis's
"Inn" and "Epiphany"
Erin Newcomb
PART IV: Intertextuality
Chapter Seven: Bell Speech in John Donne, Richard Wilbur, and Connie
Willis's Doomsday Book
William Tate
Chapter Eight: Finding Love (and Truth?) in the Midst of Chaos: The
Influence of Dorothy L. Sayers's Detective Fiction on To Say Nothing of the
Dog
Christine A. Colón
PART V: Genre, Gender, and Xenophobia
Chapter Nine: The Mote in the Jester's Eye: Aspects of Race and Gender in
Connie Willis's Light Short Fiction
Sylvia Kelso
Chapter Ten: "Tell All the Truth but Tell it Slant": Rhetorical Humor in
Connie Willis's Short Fiction
Rosalyn Eves
PART VI: Humanist and Posthumanist Witness
Chapter Eleven: Messages in a Bottle: The Historian's Ethic in Connie
Willis's Quantum Universe
Kathryn N. McDaniel
Chapter Twelve: Schrödinger's Cathedrals: Humanist Memory and Posthumanist
Sacramentality in Connie Willis's Fiction
Carissa Turner Smith