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  • A Tale Told by a Machine
    Heather Duerre Humann
    Intelligent machines have long existed in science fiction, and they now appear in mainstream films such as Bladerunner, Ex Machina, I Am Mother and Her, as well as in a recent proliferation of literary texts narrated from the machine’s perspective. These new portrayals of artificial intelligence inevitably foreground dilemmas related to identity and selfhood, concepts being ...
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    72,20 €

  • Reality Simulation in Science Fiction Literature, Film and Television
    Heather Duerre Humann
    In recent decades, science fiction in both print and visual media has produced an outpouring of story lines that feature forms of simulated reality. These depictions appear with such frequency that fictional portrayals of simulated worlds have become a popular sci-fi trope--one that prompts timeless questions about the nature of reality while also tapping into contemporary d...
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    61,47 €

  • Another Me
    Heather Duerre Humann
    A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character’s sinister look-alike--continues to appear in literature, television and film. The modern-day version (of the Doppelganger, or 'double-goer' in German) is typically depicted in a form adapted to reflect present-day social anxieties. Focusing on a broad range of narratives, the author explores 21st cen...
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    57,64 €

  • Gender Bending Detective Fiction
    Heather Duerre Humann
    Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction--characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader expectations. This examination of 20th and 21st century crime novels reveals...
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    72,18 €

  • Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women
    Heather D Humann / Heather Duerre Humann
    The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl Jones’s Corregidora, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills...
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    57,62 €