Universes without us : posthuman cosmologies in American literature /

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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 event...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Taylor, Matthew A., 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Temas:
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849 > Criticism and interpretation.
Adams, Henry, > 1838-1918 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chesnutt, Charles W. > (Charles Waddell), > 1858-1932 > Criticism and interpretation.
Hurston, Zora Neale > Criticism and interpretation.
Adams, Henry, > 1838-1918
Chesnutt, Charles W. > (Charles Waddell), > 1858-1932
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Poe, Edgar Allan, > 1809-1849
1800-1999
Cosmology in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Humanity in literature.
Human beings in literature.
Self in literature.
Order (Philosophy) in literature.
Cosmologie dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Humanité (Morale) dans la littérature.
Êtres humains dans la littérature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Ordre (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Immortal postmortems
  • Edgar Allan Poe's meta/physics
  • Henry Adams's half-life: The science of autobiography
  • "By an act of self-creation": on becoming human in America
  • Hoodoo you think you are?: self-conjuration in Chesnutt's The conjure woman
  • "It might be the death of you": Hurston's Voodoo ethnography.

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