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Stadt, Spiel, Serie. Räume serieller Dystopien in der gegenwärtigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
The research on children’s and young adult’s literature has scarcely focused on the interactions amongst serial storytelling and the aesthetic...
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Conrad
When Joseph Conrad left the Congo on December 4, 1890 and set off again for Europe, he was no longer the man who had first set foot on African soil...
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Coming to Terms with the Present: Critical Theory and Critical Posthumanism in Contemporary German Science Fiction
The past forever afflicts the German present, hindering its progression and development. This is a reminder of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s...
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Introduction
This introduction explains how the author’s professional experiences led to his interest in science fiction literature, then outlines the main...
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Critical Dystopia
This chapter argues that, from its elaboration during the 1980s and through to the early 2000s, the concept of the critical dystopia has provided a...
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Motherhood Beyond Woman: I Am [a Good] Mother and Predecessors Onscreen
Whether to ensure humanity’s survival or to host other species, reproduction has been a steady pretext to (ab)use women in sci-fi. Though their...
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South Asia
Modern South Asia, a diverse, populous, multilingual, and geopolitically influential sub-continent, has produced much utopian literature. This...
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Music Transformation in Literature
This chapter explores the roles of music in literature and how the representation of musical sounds, forms, and genres transforms literature. The...
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Playing Nellie Bly: On the Travel Writing of an American Girl
Nellie Bly’s remarkable career as a stunt reporter has been celebrated in boardgames, children’s books, and an amusement park; her writings have been...
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Anti-utopia
The terminological and genealogical jungle surrounding the key concepts of utopian studies involving the central trinity of...
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Introduction: Science Fiction with Chinese Characteristics
This book begins by asking why Liu Cixin’s Three Body trilogy was so popular in English translation in the West, giving an overview of the history of...
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Widerständigkeit und Narration – Zur Selbstbehauptung des Menschen in Zeiten ‚autonomer‘ Technologien
Es soll in diesem Beitrag im Wesentlichen um eine Frage gehen: Welche Rolle spielt Widerständigkeit in der narrativen Selbstpositionierung? Diese...
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Exil-Zeitschriften als Netzwerk
Exil-Periodika (1933–1945) werden in der germanistisch gerahmten Exilforschung vor allem in ihrer Funktion als Stimmgeber und Vertreter des „anderen...
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The Canon Zoomed Out: Big Data and the Literary Canon
The essay addresses the role digital analysis—what Franco Moretti calls “Distant Reading” or Matthew Jockers calls “Macroanalysis”—can play in...
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Sexualities
To relegate the question of gender and sexuality to a subgenre of contemporary dystopias is to dismiss an overdue analysis of an essential feature of...
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Animal Rights
The English polymath and social reformer Henry Salt is the author of Animal Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892), a pioneering...
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Elements of Continuity: Youth and the Oxford Years
Certain themes and patterns that Barbara Pym would persistently explore are manifest in her youth, in her years as a student at Oxford, and in those...
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Being an Artificial Womb Machine-Human
Anne Charnock foretells the coming era of motherless births depicting the future of reproductive technologies and its myriad consequences for...