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Reading Literature in the Anthropocene: Ecosophy and the Ecologically-Oriented Ethics of Jeff Noon’s Nymphomation and Pollen Emma Nicoletti 10012001 B.A. (Hons), The University of Western Australia, 2005 Dip. Ed., The University of Western Australia, 2006 This thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The University of Western Australia School of Humanities (English and Cultural Studies) 2014 ii Abstract This thesis examines the science fiction novels Nymphomation and Pollen by Jeff Noon. The reading brings together ideas from the eco-sciences, environmental humanities and ecocriticism in order to analyse the ecological dimensions of these texts. Although Noon’s work has been the subject of academic critique, critical discussions of his oeuvre have overlooked the engagement of Nymphomation and Pollen with ecological issues. This is a gap in the scholarship on Noon’s work that this thesis seeks to rectify. These novels depict landscapes and communities as being degraded because of the influence of information technologies and homogeneous ideologies, making them a productive lens through which to consider and critically respond to some of the environmental and social challenges faced by humanity in an anthropogenic climate. In order to discuss the ecological dimensions of these novels, the thesis advances the notion of an “ecosophical reading practice.” This idea draws on Felix Guattari’s concept of “ecosophy,” and combines it with the notions of “ecological thinking” developed in the work of theorists Timothy Morton, Lorraine Code and Gregory Bateson. While Morton’s work is extensively cited in ecocritical scholarship, with a few exceptions, the work of the other theorists is not. -
Three Approaches to a Cultural Object: the Film Under the Skin
American Journal of Applied Psychology 2020; 9(6): 150-159 http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/ajap doi: 10.11648/j.ajap.20200906.12 ISSN: 2328-5664 (Print); ISSN: 2328-5672 (Online) Commentary Three Approaches to a Cultural Object: The Film Under the Skin Ana Belchior Melícias 1, Maria Aparecida Cabral 2, João Augusto Frayze-Pereira 3, * 1Portuguese Psychoanalytical Society, Lisbon, Portugal 2Brazilian Society of Psychoanalysis of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 3Institute of Psychology and Master's and Doctoral Program in Aesthetics and Art History, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Email address: *Corresponding author To cite this article: Ana Belchior Melícias, Maria Aparecida Cabral, João Augusto Frayze-Pereira. Three Approaches to a Cultural Object: The Film Under the Skin . American Journal of Applied Psychology . Vol. 9, No. 6, 2020, pp. 150-159. doi: 10.11648/j.ajap.20200906.12 Received : September 10, 2020; Accepted : October 15, 2020; Published : November 11, 2020 Abstract: This article presents three approaches to the film Under the Skin by Jonathan Glazer (2014) that correspond to three interpretative vertices. The film is an adaptation of Michel Faber´s science fiction novel set in Northern Scotland which follows an extraterrestrial that, manifested in a female human form, drives around the countryside picking up male travelers. She seduces and sends them to her home planet. Her experience on Earth is complex and causes tragical consequences. The impact of the film offered an opportunity for the authors to expand their perspectives on different directions. The first part of the article refers to psychoanalytic concepts that are applied to the film, mainly the psychoanalytical conceptualizations about the body and the starting point of mental functioning. -
Scotland's Creative Writing Centre 2016 Programme
SCOTLAND’S CREATIVE WRITING CENTRE 2016 PROGRAMME WWW.MONIACKMHOR.ORG.UK MONIACK MHOR Something is dealing from a deck of cards, face up, seven, a week of mornings, today’s revealing the hills at Moniack Mhor, shrugging off their mists. A sheepdog barks six fields away; I see the farm from here. Twelve-month cards, each one thumbed, flipped, weathered in its way – this the eighth, harvest-time, a full moon like a trump, a magic trick. It rose last night above this house, affirmative. I sensed your answer – hearts. Or a single hour is a smiling Jack, a diamond, or a spade learning a grave; charms or dark lessons. Something is shuffling; the soft breath of Moniack Mhor on the edge of utterance, I know it, the verbs of swifts riffling the air and the road turning itself into the loch, a huge ace into which everything folds. Here is the evening, displayed then dropped to drift to the blazon of barley, bracken, heather. Something is gifting this great gold gathering of cloud; a continual farewell. CAROL ANN DUFFY WELCOME Dear all, Welcome to Moniack Mhor Creative Writing Centre, based in the beautiful highlands of Scotland. Perched at 1000ft, just a stone’s throw from Loch Ness, the centre commands dramatic views of the mountain ranges of Ben Wyvis and Glen Strathfarrar. Our cosy converted croft is an inspiring atmosphere for doing what we love best, writing. 2015 was a thrilling and creative year in the life of the newly fledged, independent Moniack Mhor. We’ve been visited by many writers from all walks of life, each sharing a different story, breathing energy into the walls of the building. -
Vector 187 Speller Et Al 1996-02
1 8 Vector 7 THE CRITICAL JOURNAL OF THE BSFA £2.25 February 1996 Just Lousy With Information Neal Stephenson Interviewed Stephen Baxter on H.G.Wells’ The Invisible Man Hardback Reviews - page 11 Letters - page 3 Paperback Reviews - page 26 Page 2 Editorial Vector 187 On a New Year’s Day visit to Camden, I discovered that the Penguin bookshop had closed down. I remember this particular shop because it seemed to me to sum up the Contents elements of Camden I disliked: it had a cult book section, and I always felt that if you needed a marketing category to tell you Editorial 2 something was a cult, then you were coming to it for the wrong by Andrew Butler reasons. If it has to be explained, you won’t understand it. But cult books have re-emerged, in a joint Waterstones Frontline Despatches 3 / Observer promotion of sixteen cult books read in 1966 and Letters Edited by Gary Dalkin 1996. Leaving aside the arbitrariness of the thirty year gap, the two lists provide interesting reading as to what is considered Cognititve Mapping 2: Language 4 cult material, and what is left out. In 1966, Beat writing is by Paul Kincaid represented by Kerouac’s On the Road and Burroughs’s seminal (in all senses of the word) The Naked Lunch. Three Just Lousy With Information 5 other books on the list may be loosely considered fantasy: Neal Stephenson interviewed by Tanya Brown Hesse’s Steppenwolf, Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Peake’s The Invisible Man 9 Gormenghast. No Lord of the Rings, and no science fiction: no Dune, no Stranger in a Strange Land, no Sirens of Titan. -
Virtual Catastrophe: the Ecologically-Oriented Ethics of Jeff
Virtual Catastrophe: The Ecologically-Oriented Ethics of Jeff Noon’s Pollen Emma Nicoletti Jeff Noon's “Vurt” novels—Vurt , Pollen , Automated Alice , and Nymphomation—occupy an unusual niche within the science fiction subgenre of cyberpunk. 1 Typically, cyberpunk texts are set in near-future dystopian worlds, which are dominated by advanced virtual technologies and powerful corporations, and against this backdrop the skilled computer hacker uncovers conspiracies (often for financial profit). While Noon’s “Vurt” novels certainly include these broad aspects of cyberpunk, their execution of this “formula” differs from the typical cyberpunk mould. In these novels, the action is restricted to Manchester rather than the more cyberpunk-esque urban sprawl settings of North America or Japan, their featured “vurt” technology has an organic rather than mechanistic basis, 2 and, furthermore, they are about “looking reality in the face” rather than fleeing the messiness of the material world to the sterile safety of cyberspace. 3 For Val Gough, this last peculiarity sees Noon's novels constituting an instance of feminist cyberpunk fiction because “for Noon … the meat world constitutes an ethical challenge and a promise of redemption every bit as important as those of virtual reality or cyberspace.” 4 On the other hand, I see in all three cyberpunk-oddities of Noon's novels the promise of an ecologically-aware cyberpunk fiction: Manchester's history of industrialism and redevelopment as a haven for COLLOQUY text theory critique 23 (2012). © Monash University. www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/colloquy/journal/issue023/nicoletti.pdf 32 Emma Nicoletti ░ “yuppie” consumers situate it squarely in the environmentalist discourses on pollution and mass consumerism; 5 the depiction of technology as grounded in material reality acknowledges the dependency of all technology on the earth's resources; and, registering our inability to fully escape our bodies or our world nods to the importance of accepting the existence of a material reality that supports all life. -
Introduction Through the Postmodern Looking-Glass
Through the Postmodern Looking-Glass Notes on Jeff Noon’s Automated Alice 2013-2014 Faculty of Translation and Interpretation T-ANGL-014 — Command of the Written Language School of International Interpreters T-ANGL-015 — Command of the Spoken Language UMONS (Belgium) ByJustine Houyaux ([email protected]) Introduction CONTENTS According to the Oxford Dictionary, of Gilgamesh that dates back to at least the literature is a mass noun originating from 18th century BC. Middle English (in the sense 'knowledge of Although there are many different books'): via French from Latin litteratura and ways to shed a light on literature, depending referring to on the literary criticism current to which one (1) written works, especially those might refer, it is important to keep in mind considered of superior or lasting that literature is both a personal (subjective) artistic merit: a great work of and universal experience. literature In order to bring order to chaos, MODERNISM Page 3 (2) books and writings published on this introduction comes with a general a particular subject: the literature overview of the main literary movements of on environmental epidemiology the 20th century (next page). (3) leaflets and other printed Automated Alice was first published matter used to advertise products in 1996 by Doubleday. It is “supposed to be” or give advice: advertising and a trequel to Alice’s Adventures in promotional literature Wonderland (1866) and Through the In the context of this course on Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There Automated Alice, we will obviously only (1872) by British author Lewis Carroll2. In the POSTMODERNISM Page 5 be focusing on the first meaning of the introduction, or in the inner cover word and it is sister-discipline, literary (depending on the edition), it is written: criticism: In the last years of his life, the the art or practice of judging and fantasist Charles Dodgson wrote a commenting on the qualities and third Alice book. -
The Crimson Petal and the White Free
FREE THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE PDF Michel Faber | 864 pages | 30 Jun 2015 | Canongate Books Ltd | 9781782114413 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom NPR Choice page The supporting cast includes Shirley HendersonRichard E. Grant and Gillian Anderson. Critical reviews of the miniseries were mixed but generally positive. Despite his dreams to become a renowned writer, he has no talent for it, and his father decides to cut his allowance until William starts working seriously in the company. William meets and becomes infatuated with a young and intelligent prostitute named Sugar Romola Garaiwho is writing a novel of her own, filled with hatred and revenge against all the men who abused her and her colleagues. William moves Sugar into a flat of her own on the condition that she sees him exclusively, while she helps him emotionally and financially by giving good advice on how to handle the company. Sugar becomes more and more attached to William and, as she comments to one of her old friends, "the world that comes with him". Eventually he moves her into the Rackham The Crimson Petal and the White under the pretence of working The Crimson Petal and the White a governess to his young daughter Sophie Isla Wattthe daughter Agnes has never acknowledged the existence of due to her madness. Agnes becomes increasingly unstable and desperate and, having caught glimpses of Sugar, believes her to be her own guardian angel who will bring her to the imaginary Convent of Health. With time Sugar grows close to Sophie, The Crimson Petal and the White the mother she never had, and Agnes, by reading her journals and helping her. -
Transreferentiality: Mapping the Margins of Postmodern Fiction
Transreferentiality: Mapping the Margins of Postmodern Fiction H De G Laurie 10079718 Thesis submitted for the degree Doctor Philosophiae in English Literature at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University Supervisor: Prof AM De Lange September 2013 i Acknowledgements I hereby acknowledge with gratitude the financial assistance of the National Research Foundation, the Research Focus Area for Languages and Literature at the North-West University’s Potchefstroom Campus, The Open Window School for Visual Communication, and the North-West University‘s Research and Development Programme. Views expressed and conclusions reached in this study should be ascribed to the author and are not necessarily shared by any of these institutions. I would also like to thank the following people: My supervisor, Prof AM De Lange, for his support through complicated times and his willingness to stick out his neck. The Department of Academic Literacy in the School for Languages at the North-West University’s Vaal Triangle Campus, for granting me the time to finish this version of the thesis. My grandmother. My parents. All the friends and colleagues who, knowingly and unknowingly, provided inspiration and support and suffered during the writing of this thesis. ii Abstract Keywords: Postmodern, fiction, postmodernist fiction, science fiction, sf, possible-worlds theory, worlds, narratology, focalisation, immersion, reader experience, M. John Harrison, William Gibson, Jeff Noon This thesis starts from the observation that, while it is common for commentators to divide postmodern fiction into two general fields – one experimental and anti-mimetic, the other cautiously mimetic, there remains a fairly significant field of postmodern texts that use largely mimetic approaches but represent worlds that are categorically distinct from actuality. -
Rok III 2011
Rocznik Instytutu Polonistyki Stosowanej Wydziału Polonistyki UW Rok III 2011 Kultura popularna − części i całości Narracje w kulturze popularnej WARSZAWA 2011 Redaktor naczelny Józef Porayski-Pomsta Sekretarz redakcji Ewa Wolańska Komitet redakcyjny Stanisław Dubisz, Stanisław Gajda, Bogdan Owczarek, Józef Porayski-Pomsta (przewodniczący), Elżbieta Sękowska, Ewa Wolańska (sekretarz), Zofia Zaron, Halina Zgółkowa Redakcja tomu Bogdan Owczarek Joanna Frużyńska Współpraca Bartłomiej Fabiszewski Kamila Tuszyńska Recenzenci tomu Opracowanie redakcyjne streszczeń w języku angielskim Danuta Przepiórkowska Korekta Urszula Krzysiak Katarzyna Sałkiewicz Adres redakcji Instytut Polonistyki Stosowanej Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-927 Warszawa e-mail: [email protected] Copyright by Instytut Polonistyki Stosowanej Wydział Polonistyki UW Warszawa 2011 ISSN 2080-5853 Wydanie publikacji sfinansowane przez Wydział Polonistyki UW ze środków na badania naukowe Projekt okładki Dariusz Górski Skład i łamanie Małgorzata Kula Druk i oprawa Zakład Graficzny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, zam. 1319/2011 SPIS TREŚCI BOGDAN OWCZAREK: Wstęp .................................................................................... 7 STRATEGIE NARRACJI BOGDAN OWCZAREK: Narracyjność literatury popularnej ...................................... 11 JAKUB Z. LICHAŃSKI: Literatura popularna i sztuka opowiadania: glosy .............. 20 ADAM MAZURKIEWICZ: Teksty kultury cyberpunkowej w systemie rozrywkowym 30 LIDIA GĄSOWSKA: -
Spring 2021 Nonfiction Rights Guide
Spring 2021 Nonfiction Rights Guide 19 West 21st St. Suite 501, New York, NY 10010 / Telephone: (212) 765-6900 / E-mail: [email protected] TABLE OF CONTENTS SCIENCE, BUSINESS & CURRENT AFFAIRS HOUSE OF STICKS THE BIG HURT BRAIN INFLAMMED HORSE GIRLS FIRST STEPS YOU HAD ME AT PET NAT RUNNER’S HIGH MY BODY TALENT MUHAMMAD, THE WORLD-CHANGER WINNING THE RIGHT GAME VIVIAN MAIER DEVELOPED SUPERSIGHT THE SUM OF TRIFLES THE KINGDOM OF CHARACTERS AUGUST WILSON WHO IS BLACK, AND WHY? CRYING IN THE BATHROOM PROJECT TOTAL RECALL I REGRET I AM ABLE TO ATTEND BLACK SKINHEAD REBEL TO AMERICA CHANGING GENDER KIKI MAN RAY EVER GREEN MURDER BOOK RADICAL RADIANCE DOT DOT DOT FREEDOM IS NOT ENOUGH HOW TO SAY BABYLON THE RISE OF THE MAMMALS THE RECKONING RECOVERY GUCCI TO GOATS TINDERBOX RHAPSODY AMERICAN RESISTANCE SWOLE APOCALYPSE ONBOARDING WEATHERING CONQUERING ALEXANDER VIRAL JUSTICE UNTITLED TOM SELLECK MEMOIR UNTITLED ON AI THE GLASS OF FASHION IT’S ALL TALK CHANGE BEGINS WITH A QUESTION UNTITLED ON CLASSICAL MUSIC MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES STORIES I MIGHT REGRET TELLING YOU FIERCE POISE THE WIVES BEAUTIFUL THINGS PLEASE DON’T KILL MY BLACK SON PLEASE THE SPARE ROOM TANAQUIL NOTHING PERSONAL THE ROARING GIRL PROOF OF LIFE CITIZEN KIM BRAT DON’T THINK, DEAR TABLE OF CONTENTS, CONT. MINDFULNESS & SELF-HELP KILLING THATCHER EDITING MY EVERYTHING WE DON’T EVEN KNOW YOU ANYMORE SOUL THERAPY THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF GROWING YOUNG HISTORY TRUE AGE THE SECRETS OF SILENCE WILD MINDS THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE INTELLIGENT LOVE THE POWER OF THE DOWNSTATE -
A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. Published Recently 62. A Companion to T. S. Eliot Edited by David E. Chinitz 63. A Companion to Samuel Beckett Edited by S. E. Gontarski 64. A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction Edited by David Seed 65. A Companion to Tudor Literature Edited by Kent Cartwright 66. A Companion to Crime Fiction Edited by Charles Rzepka and Lee Horsley 67. A Companion to Medieval Poetry Edited by Corinne Saunders 68. A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture Edited by Michael Hattaway 69. A Companion to the American Short Story Edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel 70. A Companion to American Literature and Culture Edited by Paul Lauter 71. A Companion to African American Literature Edited by Gene Jarrett 72. A Companion to Irish Literature Edited by Julia M. Wright 73. A Companion to Romantic Poetry Edited by Charles Mahoney 74. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West Edited by Nicolas S. Witschi 75. A Companion to Sensation Fiction Edited by Pamela K. Gilbert 76. A Companion to Comparative Literature Edited by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas 77. -
Canongate Cursor Canons List JUL-DEC 2017 Getting It in the Head MIKE MCCORMACK
Canongate Cursor Canons List JUL-DEC 2017 Getting it in the Head MIKE MCCORMACK The celebrated debut short story collection from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year Prepare to enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locations from New York to the west of Ireland, and to the nameless realms of the imagination, it is a world where beautiful but deranged children make lethal bombs, talented sculptors spend careers dismembering themselves in pursuit of their art, and wasters rise up with axes and turn into patricides.McCormack’s celebrated debut collection is richly imaginative, bitterly funny, powerful and original. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mike McCormack is an award-winning novelist and short story writer from RELEASE DATE: 6 JULY 2017 Mayo. His previous work includes Notes from a Coma (2005), which was Canons Imprint shortlisted for BGE Irish Novel of the Year, and Forensic Songs (2012). In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Getting it in the PAPERBACK Head, and in 2007 he was awarded a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. In 2016, 9781786891396 Solar Bones won the Goldsmiths Prize and the BGE Irish Book of the Year £9.99 award. Canongate Cursor Canons List Jul-Dec 2017 02 Notes from a Coma MIKE MCCORMACK The critically acclaimed novel from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year After suffering a catastrophic breakdown, J.J. O’Malley volunteers for a government project exploring the possibility of using coma as a means to keep prisoners under control.