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Through its engagement with different kinds of texts, Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction represents a new way of approaching both science fiction and critical theory, and its uses both to question what it means to be human in digital era. ** Review 'A timely and multi-faceted work that is so much more than a study of science fiction. What we have here is an innovative synthesis of theories of gender, posthumanism, and postmodernism and works as varied and diverse as Samuel Delany's oeuvre, Japanese anime, and the widely known novels of William Gibson and films of Stanley Kubrick. Miller's entertaining suggestion that certain literary and cinematic works evoke their own critical theories that dialogue with and critique established canons of gender and postmodernist theory focuses our attention on how literary and cinematic works engage with critical theory and socio-political phenomenon in such a way as to open new routes of discussion about culture, society, and politics. Best of all, Miller manages to write about complex theoretical issues with clarity and precision a feature that will only add to his study's appeal. Exploring the Limits of the Human through

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Author

Gerald Alva Miller Jr. (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349442348

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Science