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  1. Fiction without humanity
    person, animal, thing in early enlightenment literature and culture
    Author: Festa, Lynn
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

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  2. Fiction without humanity
    person, animal, thing in early enlightenment literature and culture
    Author: Festa, Lynn
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without... more

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    Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human. Focusing on the shifting terms in which human difference from animals, things, and machines was expressed, Lynn Festa argues that writers and artists treated humanity as an indefinite class, which needed to be called into being through literature and the arts.Drawing on an array of literary, scientific, artistic, and philosophical devices- the riddle, the fable, the microscope, the novel, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting- Fiction Without Humanity focuses on experiments with the perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things. Rather than deriving species membership from sympathetic identification or likeness to a fixed template, early Enlightenment writers and artists grounded humanity in the enactment of capacities (reason, speech, educability) that distinguish humans from other creatures, generating a performative model of humanity capacious enough to accommodate broader claims to human rights.In addressing genres typically excluded from canonical literary histories, Fiction Without Humanity offers an alternative account of the rise of the novel, showing how these early experiments with nonhuman perspectives helped generate novelistic techniques for the representation of consciousness. By placing the novel in a genealogy that embraces paintings, riddles, scientific plates, and fables, Festa shows realism to issue less from mimetic exactitude than from the tailoring of the represented world to a distinctively human point of view

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780812296198
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    RVK Categories: HK 1071
    Subjects: Cultural Studies; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Anthropomorphism in literature; English prose literature; English prose literature; Enlightenment; Fictions, Theory of; Humanity in literature; Philosophical anthropology; Englisch; Humanität; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (364 Seiten), Illustrationen
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  3. The edge of evolution
    animality, inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau
    Author: Edwards, Ronald
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    "In this interdisciplinary work, author Ron Edwards offers an innovative rereading of H. G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau." Edwards utilizes his twenty-five years in biology and the ethics of animal research to examine the bioethical implications... more

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    "In this interdisciplinary work, author Ron Edwards offers an innovative rereading of H. G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau." Edwards utilizes his twenty-five years in biology and the ethics of animal research to examine the bioethical implications of Wells' work and its relevance to contemporary scientific and philosophical discussions. He tackles the myth of human exceptionalism, the notion that we are fundamentally different from the rest of the animal kingdom. We must view ourselves, he argues, not as from animals, but as animals. The approachable tone is suitable for a wide audience of the scientifically curious. At the same time, great care is given to providing an accurate and considered treatment of the technical aspects of the novel, including the scientific plausibility of Dr. Moreau's experiment. Never before have Wells' ideas been examined in such detail by an evolutionary biologist with the author's considerable experience. The implications are far-reaching, touching on key topics in animal rights, evolution, and the relationship between religion and science. Its approachability and dedication to technical accuracy produces a unique perspective on Wells' classic. Anyone with an interest in confronting some of the central issues of human existence through the lens of fiction will be rewarded with an original and thought-provoking work. "...

     
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  4. Shakespeare's extremes
    wild man, monster, beast
    Author: Jiménez Heffernan, Julián
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781137523570
    RVK Categories: HI 3390
    Edition: First published
    Series: Palgrave Shakespeare studies
    Subjects: Humanity in literature; Wild men in literature; Self in literature; Wilder Mann; Mensch <Motiv>; Ungeheuer
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William, (1564-1616); Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): The tempest; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): Julius Caesar; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): King Lear
    Scope: xi, 234 Seiten
  5. Universes without us
    posthuman cosmologies in American literature
    Author: Taylor, Matthew A.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.]

    " During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view...scientific, philosophical, religious, and... more

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    " During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view...scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary...they suggested that such energies would eventually result in the perfection of individual and collective bodies, assuming that assimilation into larger networks of being meant the expansion of humanity's powers and potentialities...a belief that continues to inform much posthumanist theory today. Universes without Us explores a lesser-known countertradition in American literature. As Matthew A. Taylor's incisive readings reveal, the heterodox cosmologies of Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Charles Chesnutt, and Zora Neale Hurston reject the anthropocentric fantasy that sees the universe as a kind of reservoir of self-realization. For these authors, the world can be made neither "other" nor "mirror." Instead, humans are enmeshed with "alien" processes that are both constitutive and destructive of "us." By envisioning universes no longer our own, these cosmologies picture a form of interconnectedness that denies any human ability to master it. Universes without Us demonstrates how the questions, possibilities, and dangers raised by the posthuman appeared nearly two centuries ago. Taylor finds in these works an untimely engagement with posthumanism, particularly in their imagining of universes in which humans are only one category of heterogeneous thing in a vast array of species, objects, and forces. He shows how posthumanist theory can illuminate American literary texts and how those texts might, in turn, prompt a reassessment of posthumanist theory. By understanding the posthuman as a materialist cosmology rather than a technological innovation, Taylor extends the range of thinkers who can be included in contemporary conversations about the posthuman. "..

     
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  6. The prosthetic imagination
    a history of the novel as artificial life
    Author: Boxall, Peter
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore

    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... more

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    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.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781108836487
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Fiction / History and criticism; Realism in literature; Mimesis in literature; Human body in literature; Humanity in literature; Modernism (Literature); Englisch; Körper <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: xi, 411 Seiten
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    The Body and the Early Modern State: From More to Cavendish. Fiction, the Body and the State -- Anatomy, Early Modernity and the Prosthetic Imagination -- Utopian Self-Fashioning from More to Cavendish -- The Prosthetic Imagination in the Early Novel Form -- The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe. Economies of Scale From Aphra Behn to Sarah Scott -- Colonialism and the World Picture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel -- Invisible Ink: Self-Fashioning and Self-Erasure in Daniel Defoe -- A Continuation of the Brain: Unregulated Bodies in Swift and Scott -- Organic Aesthetics from Richardson to Goethe -- The Organic and the Mechanic -- The Full and the Empty -- Attachment and Evasion -- The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker. The Dead Hand: Realism and Biomaterial -- The Dead Hand: Realism and Biomaterial in the Nineteenth-Century -- Irony and Biocritique from Wollstonecraft to Austen -- The Dyer's Hand: Narrative and Biomaterial in Dickens and Eliot -- An Inside Narrative: Prosthetic life in Melville -- Strange Affinity: Gothic Prosthetics from Shelley to Stoker -- The Modernist Body: From James to Beckett -- A Duplication of Consciousness: Realism -- A Duplication of Consciousness: Realism, Modernism and Prosthetic Self-Fashioning -- Modernism and the Fin de Siècle -- Art and Embodiment in James and Wharton -- All Twined Together: Prosthetic Modernism from Proust to Beckett -- Survival and Annihilation Entwined Within Me: Gathering and Dispersal in the Modernist Novel -- Landscape of Prosthetics and Simulacra -- The Limits of the Word -- Like-lines: Simulacral Prosthetics in Morrison and Pynchon -- Prosthetic Worlds in the Twenty-First-Century Novel. World, Nature, Culture -- Hand, Face, Wall -- Mind, Body, World
  7. After human
    a critical history of the human in science fiction from Shelley to Le Guin
    Author: Connolly, Thomas
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

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    ISBN: 9781800348165
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    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 69
    Subjects: Mensch <Motiv>; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Englisch
    Other subjects: Science fiction, English / History and criticism; Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Humanity in literature
    Scope: viii, 227 Seiten
  8. Universes without us
    posthuman cosmologies in American literature
    Author: Taylor, Matthew A.
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    " During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view--scientific, philosophical, religious, and... more

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    " During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view--scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary--they suggested that such energies would eventually result in the perfection of individual and collective bodies, assuming that assimilation into larger networks of being meant the expansion of humanity's powers and potentialities--a belief that continues to inform much posthumanist theory today. Universes without Us explores a lesser-known countertradition in American literature. As Matthew A. Taylor's incisive readings reveal, the heterodox cosmologies of Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Charles Chesnutt, and Zora Neale Hurston reject the anthropocentric fantasy that sees the universe as a kind of reservoir of self-realization. For these authors, the world can be made neither "other" nor "mirror." Instead, humans are enmeshed with "alien" processes that are both constitutive and destructive of "us." By envisioning universes no longer our own, these cosmologies picture a form of interconnectedness that denies any human ability to master it. Universes without Us demonstrates how the questions, possibilities, and dangers raised by the posthuman appeared nearly two centuries ago. Taylor finds in these works an untimely engagement with posthumanism, particularly in their imagining of universes in which humans are only one category of heterogeneous thing in a vast array of species, objects, and forces. He shows how posthumanist theory can illuminate American literary texts and how those texts might, in turn, prompt a reassessment of posthumanist theory. By understanding the posthuman as a materialist cosmology rather than a technological innovation, Taylor extends the range of thinkers who can be included in contemporary conversations about the posthuman. "--

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780816680603; 9780816680610; 9781452940519
    Subjects: Cosmology in literature; American literature; American literature; Humanity in literature; Human beings in literature; Self in literature; Order (Philosophy) in literature; Kosmologie; Selbst <Motiv>; Posthumanismus; Literatur
    Other subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Adams, Henry (1838-1918); Chesnutt, Charles W. (1858-1932); Hurston, Zora Neale
    Scope: 1 online resource (279 pages), illustrations
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    Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.) -- The Johns Hopkins University, 2009

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  9. Animate literacies
    literature, affect, and the politics of humanism
    Author: Snaza, Nathan
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781478004158; 9781478004790
    Series: Thought in the act
    Subjects: Literatur; Lesekompetenz; Humanität <Motiv>; Englisch
    Other subjects: Literacy / Social aspects / United States; Literacy / Political aspects / United States; Humanity in literature; Humanity in literature; Literacy / Political aspects; Literacy / Social aspects; United States
    Scope: xiii, 216 Seiten, 24 cm
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    The human(ities) in crisis -- Beloved's dispersed pedagogy -- Haunting, love, and attention -- Humanizing assemblages I: What is man? -- Slavery, the human, and dehumanization -- Literacy, slavery, and the education of desire -- What is literacy? -- Humanizing assemblages II: Discipline and control -- Bewilderment -- Toward a literary ethology -- What happens when I read? -- The smell of literature -- Pleasures of the text -- Those changeful sites -- Literacies against the state -- Futures of anima-literature
  10. Human Forms
    The Novel in the Age of Evolution
    Author: Duncan, Ian
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the... more

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    A major rethinking of the European novel and its relationship to early evolutionary scienceThe 120 years between Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871) marked both the rise of the novel and the shift from the presumption of a stable, universal human nature to one that changes over time. In Human Forms, Ian Duncan reorients our understanding of the novel's formation during its cultural ascendancy, arguing that fiction produced new knowledge in a period characterized by the interplay between literary and scientific discourses—even as the two were separating into distinct domains.Duncan focuses on several crisis points: the contentious formation of a natural history of the human species in the late Enlightenment; the emergence of new genres such as the Romantic bildungsroman; historical novels by Walter Scott and Victor Hugo that confronted the dissolution of the idea of a fixed human nature; Charles Dickens's transformist aesthetic and its challenge to Victorian realism; and George Eliot's reckoning with the nineteenth-century revolutions in the human and natural sciences. Modeling the modern scientific conception of a developmental human nature, the novel became a major experimental instrument for managing the new set of divisions—between nature and history, individual and species, human and biological life—that replaced the ancient schism between animal body and immortal soul.The first book to explore the interaction of European fiction with "the natural history of man" from the late Enlightenment through the mid-Victorian era, Human Forms sets a new standard for work on natural history and the novel

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780691194189
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; European fiction; European fiction; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Humanity in literature; Englisch; Naturwissenschaften; Roman
    Scope: 1 online resource (208 pages)
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  11. La douceur dans la pensée moderne
    esthétique et philosophie d'une notion
    Contributor: Boulègue, Laurence (Publisher); Jones-Davies, Margaret (Publisher); Malhomme, Florence (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Classiques Garnier, Paris

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    Contributor: Boulègue, Laurence (Publisher); Jones-Davies, Margaret (Publisher); Malhomme, Florence (Publisher)
    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9782406065524; 9782406065531
    Series: Rencontres ; 280
    Série "Lectures de la Renaissance latine" ; 9
    Subjects: Poetik; Zärtlichkeit; Ästhetik; Rhetorik
    Other subjects: Tenderness (Psychology); Kindness; Kindness in literature; Benevolence; Benevolence in literature; Humanity; Humanity in literature; Humanity in art; Philosophy, European / 16th century; Philosophy, European / 17th century
    Scope: 407 Seiten, Illustrationen, 22 cm
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    Proceedings of an international colloquium held at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, December 15-17, 2011
  12. The prosthetic imagination
    a history of the novel as artificial life
    Author: Boxall, Peter
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    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... more

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    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

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781108871297
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Fiction / History and criticism; Realism in literature; Mimesis in literature; Human body in literature; Humanity in literature; Modernism (Literature); Englisch; Körper <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 411 Seiten)
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    The Body and the Early Modern State: From More to Cavendish. Fiction, the Body and the State -- Anatomy, Early Modernity and the Prosthetic Imagination -- Utopian Self-Fashioning from More to Cavendish -- The Prosthetic Imagination in the Early Novel Form -- The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe. Economies of Scale From Aphra Behn to Sarah Scott -- Colonialism and the World Picture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel -- Invisible Ink: Self-Fashioning and Self-Erasure in Daniel Defoe -- A Continuation of the Brain: Unregulated Bodies in Swift and Scott -- Organic Aesthetics from Richardson to Goethe -- The Organic and the Mechanic -- The Full and the Empty -- Attachment and Evasion -- The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker. The Dead Hand: Realism and Biomaterial -- The Dead Hand: Realism and Biomaterial in the Nineteenth-Century -- Irony and Biocritique from Wollstonecraft to Austen -- The Dyer's Hand: Narrative and Biomaterial in Dickens and Eliot -- An Inside Narrative: Prosthetic life in Melville -- Strange Affinity: Gothic Prosthetics from Shelley to Stoker -- The Modernist Body: From James to Beckett -- A Duplication of Consciousness: Realism -- A Duplication of Consciousness: Realism, Modernism and Prosthetic Self-Fashioning -- Modernism and the Fin de Siècle -- Art and Embodiment in James and Wharton -- All Twined Together: Prosthetic Modernism from Proust to Beckett -- Survival and Annihilation Entwined Within Me: Gathering and Dispersal in the Modernist Novel -- Landscape of Prosthetics and Simulacra -- The Limits of the Word -- Like-lines: Simulacral Prosthetics in Morrison and Pynchon -- Prosthetic Worlds in the Twenty-First-Century Novel. World, Nature, Culture -- Hand, Face, Wall -- Mind, Body, World
  13. Primo Levi's narratives of embodiment
    containing the human
    Author: Ross, Charlotte
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780415880411
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 16
    Subjects: Holocaust survivors' writings; Human body in literature; Mind and body in literature; Humanity in literature; Technology in literature; Human body (Philosophy); Körper <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Levi, Primo; Levi, Primo (1919-1987)
    Scope: 2X, 207 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  14. Deleuze and American literature
    affect and virtuality in Faulkner, Wharton, Ellison, and McCarthy
    Author: Bourassa, Alan
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

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  15. Literatur, Literaturunterricht und die Idee der Humanität
    Aufsätze und Vorträge
    Author: Fuhrmann, Helmut
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg

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    Subjects: Literatur; Humanity in literature; Literature; Deutsch; Literatur; Deutschunterricht; Humanität
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  16. Komparatistik als Humanwissenschaft
    Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Manfred Schmeling
    Contributor: Schmitz-Emans, Monika (Publisher); Schmeling, Manfred
    Published: 2008
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    Contributor: Schmitz-Emans, Monika (Publisher); Schmeling, Manfred
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    ISBN: 9783826039010
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    RVK Categories: EC 1090 ; EC 1650 ; EC 1660 ; EC 2430
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    Subjects: Ethics in literature; Human beings in literature; Humanity in literature; Literature and society; Literatur; Fremdheit <Motiv>; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Humanität <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Schmeling, Manfred (1943-)
    Scope: 422 S.
  17. Shakespeare's extremes
    wild man, monster, beast
    Author: Jiménez Heffernan, Julián
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9781137523570
    Series: Palgrave Shakespeare studies
    Subjects: Humanity in literature; Wild men in literature; Self in literature
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: XI, 234 S., 23 cm
  18. Pinocchio, puppets, and modernity
    the mechanical body
    Contributor: Pizzi, Katia (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Routledge, London [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Pizzi, Katia (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9780415890960; 0415890969
    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Pinocchio (Fictitious character); Puppets in literature; Humanity in literature; Children's literature
    Scope: XVII, 228 S. : ill.
  19. Lyric humanity from Virgil to Flaubert
    Author: Langer, Ullrich
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity. Ranging across a vast chronology, the book investigates how such poetry and prose... more

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    From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity. Ranging across a vast chronology, the book investigates how such poetry and prose activates our capacities for empathy, equity, irony and reasoning, while educating us in pleasure and helping us comprehend death. Each chapter constitutes a fresh encounter with some of the most celebrated texts of European literary history, demonstrating how the lyrical works, and what it elicits in us. Through deft rhetorical and philological analysis, the study presents the value of literary studies for both ethical purposes and aesthetic ends

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781009225236
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    Subjects: European literature / History and criticism; Humanity in literature; Literature / Philosophy
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 214 Seiten)
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  20. The edge of evolution
    animality, inhumanity, and the island of Doctor Moreau
    Author: Edwards, Ronald
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, New York

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    ISBN: 9780190212100
    Subjects: Literature and science; Animals in literature; Humanity in literature; Ethics in literature; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Biology in literature
    Other subjects: Wells, H. G. (1866-1946): Island of Doctor Moreau; Wells, H. G. (1866-1946): The island of Doctor Moreau
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (297 pages), illustrations
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  21. Lyric humanity from Virgil to Flaubert
    Author: Langer, Ullrich
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity. Ranging across a vast chronology, the book investigates how such poetry and prose... more

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    From the Georgics of Virgil to Flaubert's landscapes of happiness, Ullrich Langer argues that lyric representation holds a particular power to address our humanity. Ranging across a vast chronology, the book investigates how such poetry and prose activates our capacities for empathy, equity, irony and reasoning, while educating us in pleasure and helping us comprehend death. Each chapter constitutes a fresh encounter with some of the most celebrated texts of European literary history, demonstrating how the lyrical works, and what it elicits in us. Through deft rhetorical and philological analysis, the study presents the value of literary studies for both ethical purposes and aesthetic ends.

     
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    ISBN: 9781009225236
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    Subjects: Literatur; Humanität <Motiv>; European literature; Humanity in literature; Literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 214 pages)
  22. Literatur, Literaturunterricht und die Idee der Humanität
    Aufsätze und Vorträge
    Author: Fuhrmann, Helmut
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg

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    ISBN: 9783826035890
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    RVK Categories: GB 2978
    Subjects: Literatur; Humanity in literature; Literature; Deutsch; Literatur; Deutschunterricht; Humanität
    Scope: 209 S.
  23. Komparatistik als Humanwissenschaft
    Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Manfred Schmeling
    Contributor: Schmitz-Emans, Monika (Publisher); Schmeling, Manfred
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg

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    Contributor: Schmitz-Emans, Monika (Publisher); Schmeling, Manfred
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    ISBN: 9783826039010
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    RVK Categories: EC 1090 ; EC 1650 ; EC 1660 ; EC 2430
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    Subjects: Ethics in literature; Human beings in literature; Humanity in literature; Literature and society; Literatur; Fremdheit <Motiv>; Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Humanität <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Schmeling, Manfred (1943-)
    Scope: 422 S.
  24. Universes without us
    posthuman cosmologies in American literature
    Author: Taylor, Matthew A.
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.]

    " During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view...scientific, philosophical, religious, and... more

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    " During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wide variety of American writers proposed the existence of energies connecting human beings to cosmic processes. From varying points of view...scientific, philosophical, religious, and literary...they suggested that such energies would eventually result in the perfection of individual and collective bodies, assuming that assimilation into larger networks of being meant the expansion of humanity's powers and potentialities...a belief that continues to inform much posthumanist theory today. Universes without Us explores a lesser-known countertradition in American literature. As Matthew A. Taylor's incisive readings reveal, the heterodox cosmologies of Edgar Allan Poe, Henry Adams, Charles Chesnutt, and Zora Neale Hurston reject the anthropocentric fantasy that sees the universe as a kind of reservoir of self-realization. For these authors, the world can be made neither "other" nor "mirror." Instead, humans are enmeshed with "alien" processes that are both constitutive and destructive of "us." By envisioning universes no longer our own, these cosmologies picture a form of interconnectedness that denies any human ability to master it. Universes without Us demonstrates how the questions, possibilities, and dangers raised by the posthuman appeared nearly two centuries ago. Taylor finds in these works an untimely engagement with posthumanism, particularly in their imagining of universes in which humans are only one category of heterogeneous thing in a vast array of species, objects, and forces. He shows how posthumanist theory can illuminate American literary texts and how those texts might, in turn, prompt a reassessment of posthumanist theory. By understanding the posthuman as a materialist cosmology rather than a technological innovation, Taylor extends the range of thinkers who can be included in contemporary conversations about the posthuman. "..

     
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  25. The prosthetic imagination
    a history of the novel as artificial life
    Author: Boxall, Peter
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore

    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... more

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    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.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781108836487
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Fiction / History and criticism; Realism in literature; Mimesis in literature; Human body in literature; Humanity in literature; Modernism (Literature); Englisch; Körper <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: xi, 411 Seiten
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    The Body and the Early Modern State: From More to Cavendish. Fiction, the Body and the State -- Anatomy, Early Modernity and the Prosthetic Imagination -- Utopian Self-Fashioning from More to Cavendish -- The Prosthetic Imagination in the Early Novel Form -- The Colonial Body: From Behn to Goethe. Economies of Scale From Aphra Behn to Sarah Scott -- Colonialism and the World Picture in the Eighteenth-Century Novel -- Invisible Ink: Self-Fashioning and Self-Erasure in Daniel Defoe -- A Continuation of the Brain: Unregulated Bodies in Swift and Scott -- Organic Aesthetics from Richardson to Goethe -- The Organic and the Mechanic -- The Full and the Empty -- Attachment and Evasion -- The Manufactured Body: From Wollstonecraft to Stoker. The Dead Hand: Realism and Biomaterial -- The Dead Hand: Realism and Biomaterial in the Nineteenth-Century -- Irony and Biocritique from Wollstonecraft to Austen -- The Dyer's Hand: Narrative and Biomaterial in Dickens and Eliot -- An Inside Narrative: Prosthetic life in Melville -- Strange Affinity: Gothic Prosthetics from Shelley to Stoker -- The Modernist Body: From James to Beckett -- A Duplication of Consciousness: Realism -- A Duplication of Consciousness: Realism, Modernism and Prosthetic Self-Fashioning -- Modernism and the Fin de Siècle -- Art and Embodiment in James and Wharton -- All Twined Together: Prosthetic Modernism from Proust to Beckett -- Survival and Annihilation Entwined Within Me: Gathering and Dispersal in the Modernist Novel -- Landscape of Prosthetics and Simulacra -- The Limits of the Word -- Like-lines: Simulacral Prosthetics in Morrison and Pynchon -- Prosthetic Worlds in the Twenty-First-Century Novel. World, Nature, Culture -- Hand, Face, Wall -- Mind, Body, World