Superhero thought experiments : comic book philosophy / by Gavaler, Chris, Goldberg, Nathaniel Jason

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Literary character : the human figure in early English writing / by Fowler, Elizabeth, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Character and the Habituation of the Reader: The Pardoner's Thought Experiment --…”
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Funny how? : sketch comedy and the art of humor / by Clayton, Alex, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…The trouble with comic theory -- Take offs -- Thought experiments -- Prime numbers -- Pitched battles -- Conclusion: the rhetoric of humor.…”
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The introspective art of Mark Twain / by Anderson, Douglas, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Thought Experiments -- 1. Inside Excursions -- 2. Interest -- 3. …”

Science Fiction beyond Borders. by Shawn Ei, Danielle Gurevitch

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Fiction refracts science : modernist writers from Proust to Borges / by Thiher, Allen, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures -- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg -- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology -- Proust, Poincaré, and contingency -- Kafka's search for laws -- James Joyce and the laws of everything -- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce -- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.…”
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Extreme fabulations : science fictions of life / by Shaviro, Steven

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Transnationalism and Resistance : Experience and Experiment in Women's Writing. by Parker, Adele

Table of Contents: “…Trauma, Resistance, Nation; Assia Djebar's Seductive Trails in So Vastthe Prison: ""A Philosopher's Thought Experiment""?…”
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Cold warriors : manliness on trial in the rhetoric of the West / by Clark, Suzanne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the frontier rhetoric of the Cold War and the crisis of manliness -- The un-American and the unreal: modern bodies and new frontiers -- Cold War modernism and the crisis of story -- Theodore Roosevelt and the postheroic arena: reading Hemingway again -- Unsettling the West: the persecution of science and Bernard Malamud's A new life -- Mari Sandoz's heartland: the abusive frontier father and the Indian warrior as counterhistory -- The warrior is a stage adolescents go through: Ursula Le Guin's thought experiments -- Conclusion: the whiteness of the Cold War and the absence of women.…”
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Postapocalyptic fiction and the social contract : "we'll not go home again" / by Curtis, Claire P., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Last one out, please turn out the lights : On the beach and The road -- "Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" : Hobbes and Lucifer's Hammer, the classic post-apocalyptic text -- "Industrious and rational" : John Locke and Alas, Babylon: the rational life post-apocalypse -- Man is born free; and everywhere is in chains: Rousseau and Malevil: the responsibilities of civil life -- "Maybe effort counted" : John Rawls and thought experiments -- "To take root among the stars" : Octavia Butler's parable of the sower and rethinking the social contract -- "We can choose" : Octavia Butler's parable of the talents and the meaning of security.…”
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Contemporary poetry and contemporary science /

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Notes on Contributors; INTRODUCTION; RAMPAGE, OR SCIENCE IN POETRY; 'AS ABOVE'; POETRY AND VIRTUAL REALITIES; 'GRIMOIRE'; SPIRIT MACHINES: THE HUMAN AND THE COMPUTATIONAL; 'BIOLOGY'; TESTAMENT AND CONFESSIONS OF AN INFORMATIONIST; 'THE WORKING SELF'; A SCIENCE OF BELONGING: POETRY AS ECOLOGY; 'STEINAR UNDIR STEINAHLITHUM'; MODELLING THE UNIVERSE: POETRY, SCIENCE, AND THE ART OF METAPHOR; 'CIRCADIAN'; ASTRONOMY AND POETRY; 'A FISTFUL OF FORAMINIFERA'; THE ACT OF THE MIND: THOUGHT EXPERIMENTS IN THE POETRY OF JORIE GRAHAM AND LESLIE SCALAPINO; 'ONCE I LOOKED INTO YOUR EYES'…”
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The meaning of form in contemporary innovative poetry / by Sheppard, Robert, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : form, forms, and forming -- Veronica Forrest-Thomson : poetic artifice and naturalization in theory and practice -- Convention and constraint : form in the innovative sonnet sequence -- Translation as transformation : Tim Atkins' and Peter Hughes' Petrarch -- Meddling the medieval : Caroline Bergvall and Erín Moure -- Translation as occupation : Simon Perril and Sean Bonney -- Rosmarie Waldrop : poetics, wild forms, and palimpsest prose -- The trace of poetry and non-poetic : conceptual writing and appropriation in Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, and John Seed -- Stefan Themerson : iconopoeia and thought-experiments in the theater of semantic poetry -- The making of the book : Bill Griffiths and Allen Fisher -- Geraldine Monk's poetics and performance : catching form in the act -- Form and the antagonisms of reality : Barry MacSweeney's sin signs.…”

I think I am : Philip K. Dick / by Rickels, Laurence A.

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Fictions of the cosmos : science and literature in the seventeenth century / by Aït-Touati, Frédérique, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Kepler sets the Earth in motion ; Genealogy of the dream: from ludus philosophicus to the game of fiction ; The dynamics of the voyage: a thought-experiment ; Vision in the voyage ; The place of fiction ; Godwin, Wilkins, Cyrano: from the optical voyage to the mechanical voyage ; The Man in the Moone ; A World in the Moon ; From heavens to the sky: Cyrano's other world ; Conclusions: dreams and fictions -- part 2. …”
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How to read Job / by Walton, John H., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- The Genre of the Book of Job -- Job Elsewhere in the Bible -- The Construction of Legends from Historical Figures -- A Thought Experiment -- Who Wrote Job and When? -- For Further Reflection -- Part Two: Getting to Know the Characters of the Book of Job…”
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The philosophy of Steven Soderbergh /

Table of Contents: “…Knowledge, truth, and thought experiments in Schizopolis and Sex, lies, and videotape / David Rodríguez-Ruiz -- Love, truth, and the medium in Sex, lies, and videotape / Yannis Tzioumakis -- Amplified discourse and desire in Sex, lies, and videotape / Murray Pomerance -- Temporality, intertextuality, genre. …”
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"A different earth" : Literary space in Mary Shelley's novels / by Rohleder, Rebekka

Table of Contents: “…3.1 "A world already possessed": Naturalising Poverty3.1.1 Spaces of Perfectibility; 3.1.2 Anti-Utopian Islands; 3.2 "The production of men": From Thought Experiment to Fiction; 3.2.1 "The Last Man": Imagining a Depopulated Earth; 3.2.2 The 1831 "Frankenstein" and the Children of the Poor; 3.3 "Remember Utopia!" …”
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Using literature in English language education : challenging reading for 8-18 year olds /

Table of Contents: “…Literature in Language Education: Challenges for Theory Building / Werner Delanoy -- Diversity in Love-Themed Fiction: John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and David Levithan's Princes / Johanna Marks and Thorsten Merse -- Popular Culture Head On: Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games / Janice Bland -- Thought Experiments with Science Fiction: Ursula Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Jurgen Wehrmann -- Environmental Havoc in Teen Fiction: Speculating Futures / Jean Webb -- Hamlet, Ophelia and Teenage Rage: Michael Lesslie's Prince of Denmark / Tzina Kalogirou -- Part III: Embracing the Challenges. …”

Unlived Lives in English Literature : a Typological Study. by Linne, Lena

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Imprint; Acknowledgements; Contents; I Introduction; II Towards a Definition of "Unlived Life"; 1 The Figurative Understanding; 2 The Literal Understanding; 2.1 Counterfactuality; 2.1.1 Counterfactuality and Fiction; 2.1.2 Counterfactual Fictional Worlds; 2.1.3 Counterfactual Thought Experiments in the Fictional World; 2.2 Counterfactual Unlived Lives; 2.2.1 Untimely Deaths and Alternate Biographies; 2.2.2 Multiple Unrealised Possibilities; 2.2.3 A Particular Unrealised Possibility in the Past; 2.2.3.1 A Counterfactual Course of Events; 2.2.3.2 A Retrospective Focus…”
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Novelistic inquiries into the mind /

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