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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Simona MicaliPublisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Imprint: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers Edition: New edition Volume: 7 Weight: 0.369kg ISBN: 9781788745826ISBN 10: 1788745825 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 08 May 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Meeting the Other, Becoming the Other – The Subhuman – The Alien – The Simulacrum – The Posthuman.ReviewsTowards a Posthuman Imagination provides the reader with a solid reflection on the role and evolution of non-human figures in sf, and it constitutes an excellent source for the scholar, a fine manual for the sf devotee, and an ideal textbook for a potential course on science fiction in general and on posthumanism in particular. (Alberto Iozzia, Science Fiction Studies, 47:2 (July 2020)) Author InformationSimona Micali is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Siena. She has published three books (L’innamoramento, 2001; Miti e riti del moderno, 2002; Ascesa e declino dell’Uomo di lusso. Il romanzo dell'intellettuale nella Nuova Italia e i suoi modelli europei, 2008) and several essays on modern and contemporary fiction. In 2016 she organized the international conference on «Fictionalising the Posthuman» (Siena) and edited a special issue of the academic journal Contemporanea on «Raccontare il postumano». Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |