... and linked them to visualizations of the future in science fiction. Frühstuck Sabine Japan jouissance Playing War Frühstuck Satō Hideo Amazing Stories magazine children Children’s Science Kodomo no kagaku magazine Ikeda Shinichi Mizuno Hiromi Morinaga Confectionary Company Popular Mechanics...

... explicitly framed within the language of science fiction, and with direct reference to Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain (1969) in particular. While many participants of the 1975 “Pandora’s Box Congress” and its aftermath derided such invocations as improper sensationalism and “molecular politics...

... points to the difficulty of genuine memoir, not its impossibility. The chapter also discusses what is at stake in the attempt to distinguish memoir from fiction. It argues that distinguishing between one literary genre and another matters because it helps to clarify and direct our reading, enabling...

...This introductory chapter grounds non-literary fiction in a genealogy of negation in critical thought, which emerges in sharp profile in the context of the rehearsal and achievement of neoliberalism in the Americas. It paints a broad picture of non-objectualism in the arts that productively links...

... eighteenth-century development: the gradual breakup of a continuum that once linked (what we call) fact to (what we call) fiction. The second section argues that the breakup of the fact/fiction continuum was modeled on the distinction between valid and invalid monetary tokens; this distinction, in turn...

..., and cites instances that this type of humor emerged from early modern comic fiction to become the new comic fiction of the age. Finally, it chronicles the moralists’ attack on such violent humor. Devices that made a primal joke of the human body took their toll, however. They interrupted sympathy...

... to the mid-Qing periods. It describes the protagonists and the narrative of several pornographic fictions including A Crazed Lady, The Plum in the Golden Vase, and A Libertine's Story. Crazed Lady A Chipozi zhuan female libertine libertine androgynous...

...In the 1870s, several authors explored the ancient past through historical fiction in ways that were not possible for professional archaeologists. Museum officials and archaeologists understood the complexities of the distant past, including the waves of migrations that swept across the European...

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...This chapter considers competing understandings of male same-sex relations in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) and analyzes how Mark Twain employs typical plot elements and motifs from romantic friendship fiction in tandem with more recent and competing, pseudoscientific...

..., Wrong Number,” it examines how acts of communication underlie how we understand technology, the protagonist Mrs. Stevenson, and her dire situation. The chapter also shows that both writers of radio fiction and writers of social research generally viewed people as “active” transmitters or “passive...

...Disagreements about the history of genre are hard to resolve because contemporary readers inevitably see earlier works through a retrospective lens. We may call the novels of Mary Shelley "science fiction," for instance, but that phrase didn't exist when she wrote them, and it is difficult...

...This chapter presents a particular dimension of cultural representation— that of fiction, and especially elite fiction made into popular films—and it begins with two observations. First: if one excludes novels about the Holocaust, there are far fewer important postwar novels written in English...

...This chapter turns back to narrative fiction. Tracing modernist literary representations of human and corporate bodies, it engages in a close reading of Hermann Broch's novel The Sleepwalkers (1928–32). The text appropriates medical notions of somnambulism while employing...

... ordinary mental processes like the procedures used by the police was complicated by the emergence of detective fiction whose protagonists, including Sherlock Holmes, displayed seemingly infallible powers of reasoning. Plebeian autodidacts also conflated correlation with their occult beliefs. While new...

.... Despite these debacles, the building somehow remained standing in apparent perpetuity. The motif of the ruin became firmly identified with the emerging genre of science fiction and the skyscrapers of New York City. The notion of modern skyscrapers as antiquated ruins was belied by Manhattan's economic...

... planners in the materiality of the city as well as directing their attention away from a rich source of insights that might be provided by realist fiction and narrative non-fiction. built environment planners practice of planning knowledge and action language material world planning narrative styles...

...This chapter challenges a common view that British aestheticism privileged the notion of an aesthetically sensitive, solipsistic individual. Situating Walter Pater’s fiction in relation to a revival of interest in Lucretian materialism, the chapter shows that Paterian aestheticism often portrayed...

... of earlier religious views as forms of weak-willed sentimentality. The chapter shows how these ideas worked together with a Darwinism-inspired conception of economic growth as a form of common good, driven, rather than threatened, by internal conflict. Naturalist fiction—Frank Norris's Vandover and the Brute...

...This chapter rereads Ohio pharmacist John Uri Lloyd's science fiction alongside Theodore Roosevelt's essays on hunting to explore the different ethics of preservation emerging at the end of the nineteenth century. As Lloyd decried the vandalism of the prairie for monocultural production, Teddy...