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Author: Peter Boxall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1108836488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops a new theoretical account of the historical role of the novel in fashioning our bodies and environments.
Author: Peter Boxall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1108872646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions. This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our bodies, and to our environments, and Boxall suggests that the novel as a form can guide us in this imaginative task. Across a dazzling range of prose fictions, from Thomas More's Utopia to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Boxall shows how the novel has played a central role in forging the bodies in which we extend ourselves into the world. But if the novel has helped to give our world a human shape, it also contains forms of life that elude our existing human architectures: new amalgams of the living and the non-living that are the hidden province of the novel imagination. These latent conjunctions, Boxall argues, are preserved in the novel form, and offer us images of embodied being that can help us orient ourselves to our new prosthetic condition.
Author: Marquard Smith
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0262195305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere does the body end? Exploring the material and metaphorical borderline between flesh and its accompanying technologies.
Author: Peter Boxall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1108483410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGives a comprehensive critical picture of the development of British fiction from the election of Thatcher to the present.
Author: J. David Velleman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-01-26
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780521854290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays by philosopher J. David Velleman on personal identity, autonomy, and moral emotions is united by an overarching thesis that there is no single entity denoted by 'the self', as well as themes from Kantian ethics and Velleman's work in the philosophy of action.
Author: Alison Landsberg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780231129268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProsthetic Memory argues that mass cultural forms such as cinema and television in fact contain the still-unrealized potential for a progressive politics based on empathy for the historical experiences of others. The technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, to share collective memories--to assimilate as deeply felt personal experiences historical events through which they themselves did not live.
Author: Jane Draycott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-09-03
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1351232371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, a prosthesis is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, generally designed and assembled according to the individual’s appearance and functional needs with a view to being both as unobtrusive and as useful as possible. In classical antiquity, however, this was not necessarily the case. The ancient literary and documentary evidence for prostheses and prosthesis use is contradictory, and the bioarchaeological and archaeological evidence is enigmatic, but discretion and utility were not necessarily priorities. So, when, howand why did individuals utilise them? This volume, the first to explore prostheses and prosthesis use in classical antiquity, seeks to answer these questions, and will be of interest to academics and students with specialistinterests in classical archaeology, ancient history and history, especially those engaged in studies of healing, medical and surgical practices, or impairment and disability in past societies.
Author: Peter Boxall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-06-24
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1107244498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament – one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge established notions of democracy, humanity, and national and global sovereignty. Peter Boxall traces formal and thematic similarities in the novels of contemporary writers including Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, as well as David Mitchell, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dave Eggers, Ali Smith, Amy Waldman and Roberto Bolaño. In doing so, Boxall maps new territory for scholars, students and interested readers of today's literature by exploring how these authors narrate shared cultural life in the new century.
Author: Charles R. Garoian
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2013-01-22
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1438445482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy beginning each chapter of The Prosthetic Pedagogy of Art with an autobiographical assemblage of personal memory and cultural history, Charles R. Garoian creates a differential, prosthetic space. Within these spaces are the particularities of his own lived experiences as an artist and educator, as well as those of the artists, educators, critics, historians, and theorists whose research and creative scholarship he invokes—coexisting and coextending in manifold ways. Garoian suggests that a contiguous positioning of differential narratives within the space of art research and practice constitutes prosthetic pedagogy, enabling learners to explore, experiment, and improvise multiple correspondences between and among their own lived experiences and understandings, and those of others. Such robust relationality of cultural differences and peculiarities brings about interminable newness to learners' understanding of the other, which challenges the intellectual closure, reductionism, and immutability of academic, institutional, and corporate power.
Author: Stephen Kern
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-06-23
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1139499475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading scholar Stephen Kern offers a probing analysis of the modernist novel, encompassing American, British and European works. Organized thematically, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the stunningly original formal innovations in novels by Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Proust, Gide, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Kafka, Musil and others. Kern contextualizes and explains how formal innovations captured the dynamic history of the period, reconstructed as ten master narratives. He also draws briefly on poetry and painting of the first half of the twentieth century. The Modernist Novel is set to become a fundamental source for discussions of the genre and a useful introduction to the subject for students and scholars of modernism and twentieth-century literature.
