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Author:   Carissa Turner Smith
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.698kg
ISBN:  

9781032303802

ISBN 10:   1032303808
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   31 October 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"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"

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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.

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