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Connie Willis's science fiction : Doomsday every day
Title
Connie Willis's science fiction : Doomsday every day / edited by Carissa Turner Smith.
ISBN
100330480X (electronic bk.)
9781003304807 (electronic bk.)
1032303808
1032303840
9781032303802
9781032303840
Publication
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 281 pages.)
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Summary
"In spite of Connie Willis's numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of critical publication surrounding her work. Taking Doomsday Book as its cue, this collection argues that Connie Willis's most famous novel, along with the rest of her oeuvre, performs science fiction's task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly-and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location. Willis's fiction emphasizes that doomsdays happen every day, and they risk being forgotten by some, even as their trauma repeats for others. However, disasters also have the potential to upend accepted knowledge and transform the social order for the better, and this collection considers the ways that Willis pairs comic and tragic modes to reflect these uncertainties"-- Provided by publisher.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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Original
Online version: Connie Willis's science fiction New York, NY : Routledge, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again : Doomsday book and recurring pandemics / Joelle L. Renstrom
Flip passes : interpreting agency and contagion in Bellwether / Jill Marie Treftz
Emergency unpreparedness : responses to disaster in Connie Willis's Passage / Matthew Newcomb
Taking it personally : private engagement with public trauma from World War II to J.F.K. / Janet Bland
You were here all along : Doomsday book and the bodies of Christ / Chad Schrock
Christmas every day : incarnational theology in Connie Willis's Inn and Epiphany / Erin Newcomb
Bell speech in John Donne, Richard Wilbur, and Connie Willis's Doomsday book / William Tate
Finding love (and truth?) In the midst of chaos : the influence of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective fiction on To say nothing of the dog / Christine Colón
The mote in the jester's eye : aspects of race and gender in Connie Willis's light short fiction / Sylvia Kelso
Tell all the truth but tell it slant : rhetorical humor in Connie Willis's short fiction / Rosalyn Eves
Messages in a bottle : the historian's ethic in Connie Willis's quantum universe / Kathryn N. McDaniel
Schrödinger's cathedrals : humanist memory and posthumanist sacramentality in Connie Willis's fiction / Carissa Turner Smith.
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