William Gibson Neuromancer

Wegener, Franz: William Gibson's 'Neuromancer' and the relation between mind and body, GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, Januar 2008, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638886379
Scholarly Paper aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1 (very good), Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Institut für fremdsprachliche Philologien), Veranstaltung: Cyborgs (WS 2001/2002), 4 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Anmerkungen: This paper is about William Gibson's 'Neuromancer'. Neuromancer was the book that initiated the cyberpunk debate, which was very influential in culture studies. The paper explores Gibson's position towards the mind-body-problem, i.e. the relation between mind and body. , Abstract: This paper is about William Gibson's famous novel Neuromancer. Neuromancer was the book that initiated the cyberpunk debate, a debate that was very influential in culture studies and modern literature. The cyberpunk debate created a more suspicious image of new technologies and their effect on the role of the human being as well as the social life and the society. Gibson's position towards the mind-body-problem, i.e. the relation between mind and body, is examined. An overview is given of possible technologies he describes and how they trigger the breakdown between man and machine as well as between individuals. The paper also sketches the effects of those technologies on social interaction, moral values and the structure of the society.

NEUBUCH! 2008. 36 S. 210 mm 213 mm x 148 mm x 23 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V37565

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Jack,Womack: Random Acts of Senseless Violence, GROVE/ATLANTIC INC, September 1995 ISBN: 0802134246
With his vivid, stylized prose, cyberpunk intensity, and seemingly limitless imagination, Jack Womack has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut - though Gibson admits, If you dropped the characters from Neuromancer into Womack's Manhattan, they'd fall down screaming and have nervous breakdowns. Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Womack's fifth novel, is a thrilling, hysterical, and eerily disturbing piece ot work. Lola Hart is an ordinary twelve-year-old girl. She comes from a comfortable family, attends an exclusive private school, loves her friends Lori and Katherine, teases her sister Boob. But in the increasingly troubled city where she lives (a near-future Manhattan) she is a dying breed. Riots, fire, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, increasing inflation, political and civil unrest all threaten her way of life, as well as the very fabric of New York City. In her diary, Lola chronicles the changes she and her family make as they attempt to adjust to a city, and a country, that is spinning out of control. Her mother is a teacher, but no one is hiring. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. Hounded by creditors and forced to vacate their apartment and move to Harlem, her family, and her life, begins to dissolve. Increasingly estranged from her privileged school friends, Lola soon makes new ones: Iz, Jude, and Weezie - wise veterans of the street who know what must be done in order to survive and are more than willing to do it. And the metamorphosis of Lola Hart, who is surrounded by the new language and violence of the streets, begins. Simultaneously chilling and darkly hilarious, Random Acts of Senseless Violence takes the jittery urban fears wesuppress, both in fiction and in daily life, and makes them explicit - and explicitly terrifying. Paying meticulous attention to the evolving rhythm and syntax of speech, and their alliance with class and race, Womack demonstrates that woven into the mutable nature of language

NEUBUCH! 228 mm x 152 mm x 18 mm

[KW: Fiction - General, Fiction / General]

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Phillips, Jayne Anne: Machine Dreams. Deutscher Titel: Maschinenträume. London, Faber and Faber, 1993. ISBN: 0571169686
Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Guter Zustand. - Jayne Anne Phillips (born July 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer, born in the small town of Buckhannon, West Virginia. Biography: Phillips graduated from West Virginia University, earning a B.A. in 1974. During the mid-1970s, she left West Virginia for California, embarking on a cross-country trip that would lead to numerous jobs, experiences, and encounters that would greatly affect her fiction, with its focus on lonely, lost souls and struggling survivors. In 1976, Truck Press published her first short story collection Sweethearts, for which Phillips earned a Pushcart Prize and the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Fels Award. Sweethearts was followed in 1978 by a second small-press collection, Counting, issued by Vehicle Editions. Counting earned Phillips greater recognition and the St. Lawrence Award. Her next collection, Black Tickets, published by Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence in 1979, was her first commercial success and brought her national attention as a talented and important writer. Black Tickets contained three types of stories: one page fictions, inner soliloquies, and family dramas. These stories focused on her characters' loneliness, alienation, and unsuccessful searches for happiness. Five years after Black Tickets, Phillips published her first novel, Machine Dreams, a chronicle of the Hampson family from World War II to the Vietnam War. Phillips followed Machine Dreams with Fast Lanes, a 1988 collection of ten stories, all first-person narratives. In 1994, Phillips published her second novel, Shelter, a portrait of the loss of innocence at a West Virginia girls' camp in the summer of 1963. Phillips' next novel was MotherKind (2000), winner of the Massachusetts Book Award, a story of intergenerational love and struggles within a family facing many changes. "Lark And Termite," her fourth novel, was published by Knopf in 2009 to extremely positive reviews (see JayneAnnePhillips-com). Phillips' works have been translated and published in twelve foreign languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and a Bunting Fellowship from the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Phillips has held teaching positions at several colleges and universities, including Harvard University, Williams College, and Boston University. She is currently Professor of English and Director of the Rutgers Newark M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Rutgers Newark, the State University of New Jersey (see www.mfa.newark.rutgers.edu). She and her husband, physician Mark Stockman, have three sons. Her work is mentioned in the 2006 lectures for The Modern Scholar series "From Here to Infinity" by Professor Michael D.C. Drout. He refers to her style (perhaps borrowed by science fiction writer William Gibson in his book Neuromancer) as "headlong rush of story and description." Her son, Theo Stockman, is currently performing as a member of the Tribe in the revival of Hair on Broadway. Retrieved from "wikipedia--Jayne_Anne_Phillips". , ISBN-13: 9780571169689

Erste Auflage dieser Ausgabe. 331 Seiten. 19,7 cm. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert.

[KW: Vietnam, Originalsprache, Book is written in english, Amerikanische Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, Americana, Amerikanistik, Vietnamkrieg, Familiengeschichte, Amerikanische Literatur, Amerikanische Geschichte, Amerikaner, Amerikanerin, Amerikanische Gesellschaft, Familienroman, Amerika / Soziale Verhältnisse / Zeitgeschichte, Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft, Politik,]

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William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive, Harper Collins Paperbacks, ISBN: 0006480446
The last of the Sprawl trilogy: the AIs of Neuromancer have suffered a traumatized, cataclysmic coming to self-awareness and now haunt cyberspace as voodoo powers.

NEW 1995. 320 p. 197 mm 197 mm x 128 mm x 23 mm

[KW: Englisch; Science Fiction]

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