The Prosthetic Imagination: A History Of The Novel As Artificial Life (pdf)
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- Synopsis
- In The Prosthetic Imagination, leading critic Peter Boxall argues that we are now entering an artificial age, in which our given bodies enter into new conjunctions with our prosthetic extensions. This new age requires us to reimagine our relation to our bodies, and to our environments, and Boxall suggests that the novel as a form can guide us in this imaginative task. Across a dazzling range of prose fictions, from Thomas More's Utopia to Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Boxall shows how the novel has played a central role in forging the bodies in which we extend ourselves into the world. But if the novel has helped to give our world a human shape, it also contains forms of life that elude our existing human architectures: new amalgams of the living and the non-living that are the hidden province of the novel imagination. These latent conjunctions, Boxall argues, are preserved in the novel form, and offer us images of embodied being that can help us orient ourselves to our new prosthetic condition.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 422 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108836487
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/23/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Peter Boxall
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Education
- Submitted By:
- Rochelle Pretsell
- Proofread By:
- Rochelle Pretsell
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.