Month: March 2010

  • McConnell, Frank, The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science

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    Patrick Parrinder

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    Frank McConnell, The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination, ed. by Gary Westfahl (Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland, 2009). xii+212 pp. £28.95 hb. ISBN 978-0-7864-3722-1. The J. Lloyd Eaton conferences on science fiction and fantasy have been held annually at the University of California,…

  • Fromm, Harold, The Nature of Being Human

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    Roger Ebbatson

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    Harold Fromm, The Nature of Being Human: From Environmentalism to Consciousness (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). x+299 pp. £18.00 hb. ISBN 9780801891298. Walter Benjamin maintained that the writer should use ‘I’ only in personal letters, but in The Nature of Being Human Harold Fromm does not hesitate to personalise his eco-critical discourse, producing a…

  • BSLS Book Prize for 2009

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    The following books have been shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science prize for the best book in the field of literature and science published in 2009: Brian Boyd, On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Harvard University Press) Leah Knight, Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants…

  • Plock, Vike, Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity

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    Katy Mullin

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    Vike Plock, Joyce, Medicine, and Modernity (Miami: University of Florida Press, 2010). pp 187. £57.95 hb. ISBN 081303423X James Joyce’s interest in all kinds of medicine—past and present, formal and folk—leaves multiple traces on his writing. Dubliners (1914) is bounded by illness, from its opening on Father Flynn’s fatal ‘third stroke’ to its close on…

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