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Shakespeare, William, --- In literature --- In literature.

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Masculinity in literature. --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature

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This edited volume explores new engagements with the life sciences in contemporary fiction, poetry, comics and performance. The gathered case studies investigate how recent creative work reframes the human within microscopic or macroscopic scales, from cellular biology to systems ecology, and engages with the ethical, philosophical, and political issues raised by the twenty-first century's shifting views of life. The collection thus examines literature and performance as spaces that shape our contemporary biological imagination. Comprised of thirteen chapters by an international group of academics, Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance engages with four main areas of biological study: 'Invisible scales: cells, microbes and mycelium', 'Neuro-medical imaging and diagnosis', 'Pandemic imaginaries', and 'Ecological scales'. The authors examine these concepts in emerging forms such as plant theatre, climate change art, ecofiction and pandemic fiction, including the work of Jeff Vandermeer, Jon McGregor, Jeff Lemire, and Extinction Rebellion's Red Rebel Brigade performances. This valuable resource moves beyond the biological paradigms that were central to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to outline the specificity of a contemporary imagination. Life, Re-Scaled is crucial reading for academics, scholars, and authors alike, as it proposes an unprecedented overview of the relationship between literature, performance and the life sciences in the twenty-first century.

Life sciences in literature. --- Science in literature.

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"Dans son livre monumental de 1979, Arbeit am Mythos - Travail sur le mythe -, Blumenberg effectuait une réhabilitation philosophique du mythe contra toute approche qui le renverrait à un passé archaïque ou à une forme pprovisoire vouée à être dépassée par la rationalité scientifique. Mais il semblait avoir esquivé le problème de l'usage idéologique du mythe. Préfiguration. Quand le mythe fait l'histoire aborde de front le cas d'Hitler et la façon dont des "précédents" imaginaires mythifiés - Alexandre le Grand, César, Frédéric II, Napoléon - ont déterminé l'action du dirigeant nazi jusque dans le détail de décisions stratégiques, et précipité sa défaite, à Stalingrad. Au-delà du "mythe nazi", Blumenberg met au jour une logique de la "préfiguration" : dans l'incertitude de l'action historique, le passé, vu comme un réservoir de possibilités que l'on peut répéter, est constitué en mythe."

Myth in literature. --- Politics in literature.

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"Memory loss is not always viewed purely as a contingent neurobiological process present in an ageing population; rather, it is frequently related to larger societal issues and political debates. This edited volume examines how different media and genres - novels, auto/biographical writings, documentary as well as fictional films and graphic memoirs - represent dementia for the sake of critical explorations of memory, trauma and contested truths. In ten analytical chapters and one piece of graphic art, the contributors examine the ways in which what might seem to be the individual, ahistorical diseases of dementia are used in contemporary cultural texts to represent and respond to violent historical and political events - ranging from the Holocaust to postcolonial conditions - all of which can prove difficult to remember. Combining approaches from literary studies with insights from memory studies, trauma studies, anthropology, the critical medical humanities and media, film and comics studies, this volume explores the politics of dementia and incites new debates on cultures of remembrance, while remaining attentive to the lived reality of dementia." -- Publisher's website.

Dementia in literature. --- Memory in literature.