Search Results - "Margaret Atwood"

Transhumanism and posthumanism in twenty-first century narrative

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Fire and Snow : Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones / by Di Paolo, Marc

Table of Contents: “…Francis, and the Ecofeminist Storytelling Model -- MaddAddam and The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood and Dystopian Science Fiction as Current Events -- Ur-Fascism and Populist Rebellions in Snowpiercer and Mad Max: Fury Road -- Tolkien's Kind of Catholic: Suzanne Collins, Empathy, and The Hunger Games -- The Cowboy and Indian Alliance: Collective Action Against Climate Change in A Song of Ice and Fire and Star Trek -- What Next? …”
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The mini-cycle / by Weiss, Allan, 1956-

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Literature and sustainability : Exploratory essays /

Table of Contents: “…The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill / Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley -- Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture / John Parham -- Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality / Kate Rigby -- Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell -- Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison / Joshua Schuster -- The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature / Claire Colebrook -- Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Dana Phillips -- "The shadow of the future made all the difference": sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy / Chris Pak -- The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods / Adeline Johns-Putra -- A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island / Hannes Bergthaller -- Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining / Matthew Griffiths -- Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Louise Squire.…”
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Narrative, interrupted the plotless, the disturbing and the trivial in literature /

Table of Contents: “…David Herman: Toward a zoonarratology: storytelling and species difference in animal comics -- Markku Lehtimäki: Watching a tree grow: Terrence Malick's The new world and the nature of cinema -- Maria Mäkelä: Navigating "making sense" interpreting (the reader behind La jalousie) -- Mari Hatavara: History impossible: narrating and motivating the past -- Jan Alber: Unnatural temporalities: interfaces between postmodernism, science fiction, and the fantastic -- Sanna Katariina Bruun: The imperfect is our paradise: intertextuality and fragmentary narration in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- Jakob Lothe: Fragile narrative situations: Conrad compared to Sebald -- Shadow of a tail: problems of authorship. …”
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Engagements with Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory by Gottlieb, Evan, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Animals, affects, objects, environments; We have never been human; Donna Haraway: cyborgs, companion species, Chthulucene; Sara Ahmed: affects, objects, and feminist killjoys; Timothy Morton: being ecological with object-oriented ontology; Engaging with classic literature: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Engaging with contemporary literature: Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation; Engaging with film and new media: Margaret Atwood's Angel Catbird…”
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Linguistic foundations of identity : readings in language, literature and contemporary cultures /

Table of Contents: “…: Language and Identity in Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye -- 25. 'Angikan' Identity: A Socio-linguistic and Socio-cultural Perspective…”
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