Symbolism 2020 : : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics /

Symbolism 2020 : : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics / / ed. by Rüdiger Ahrens, Florian Klaeger, Klaus Stierstorfer.

This special anniversary volume of Symbolism explores the nexus between symbolic signification and the future from an interdisciplinary perspective. How, contributors ask, has the future been variously rendered in symbolic terms? How do symbols and symbolic reference shape our ideas of the future? T...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
HerausgeberIn:
Ahrens, Rüdiger,
Klaeger, Florian,
Stierstorfer, Klaus,
MitwirkendeR:
Batzke, Ina,
Bharucha, Nilufer E.,
Burkhard, Denise,
Carpi, Daniela,
Gill, Patrick,
Gordon, Jan B.,
Hauhs, Michael,
Klaeger, Florian,
Lange, Holger,
Mueller, Stefanie,
Onega, Susana,
Reddig, Jesper,
Ritzer, Ivo,
Schmücker, Reinold,
Shrimpton, Nicholas,
Stierstorfer, Klaus,
Stähler, Axel,
Wilson, Janet M.,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2021
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 260 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword from the Editors
  • Contents
  • Special Focus: Symbols of the Future. The Future of Symbolism
  • Introduction: Symbols of the Future. The Future of Symbolism
  • Symbol’s Risks: A Note on the Interrelationship of Art and the Use of Symbols
  • ‘Symbolic Futures’ as Investment
  • On the Future Role of Symbols in Environmental Modelling
  • The Symbolization of the Female Body in Western Culture from Ancient Greece to the Transmodern Period
  • Genre and Utopia, or 48 Hrs. for the Future: Perspectives in Media Aesthetics
  • The Past Is Immutable: Technology’s Symbolism and the Future in Black Mirror
  • “Players and painted stage”: Symbolizing the Future in Shaw’s Back to Methuselah
  • Herzlian Matrix: Theme Parks, Promised Lands, and Simulacra
  • Reading the Future through the Past: Symbolism in Amitav Ghosh’s Anthropogenic Fiction
  • The Cyborg, Symbol of the Evolution of the Human, or The Human of the Future
  • “An ocean of thought”: AI, Robots, and Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and People Like You (2019)
  • Book Reviews
  • Sarah C. Bishop. Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement
  • Sandra Dinter. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel
  • Johannes Riquet. The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics
  • Lyndsey Stonebridge. Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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