Deep vellum publishing jun 2004 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Including pieces on Gregory Bateson, William Faulkner, Philip Pullman, Sir Oswald Mosley's politics, religion and stammering, this diverse collection gathers essays written by Nicholas Mosley over the past forty years. Resembling the behaviour of slime mould - a strange organism made up of separate amoebae that temporarily form a single pillar which then bursts in order to scatter its seeds across the forest floor - the ideas found in these essays converge and disperse, crossing over into other disciplines, and creating a unique way of looking at the world, one echoed in Mosley's fictional writings.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Collecting twenty essays written by distinguished scholars from the United States and Germany, 'The Holodeck in the Garden' offers an informative tour of the complex interrelations between science, technology, and contemporary American literature.Contributors include Michael Berube writing on Colson Whitehead's 'The Intuitionist'; Joseph Conte on William Gibson and Bruce Sterling; David Cowart on Don DeLillo's 'Cosmopolis'; Carl Djerassi on science-in-fiction; N. Katherine Hayles on Neal Stephenson's 'Cryptonomicon'; Ursula Heise on risk and narrative in the contemporary novel; John Johnston on network theory; Brian McHale on Harry Mathews, Kathy Acker, and Gilbert Sorrentino; Joseph Tabbi on William Gaddis; and Curtis White on the 'Great American Disaster Machine.'.…