In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations, thought until recently to be only fictional products, have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction.
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 7 - 18 Denisa Butnaru
Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015) Kein Zugriff Seiten 21 - 40 Stephan Packard
Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity Kein Zugriff Seiten 41 - 60 Bianca Westermann
Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l''Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia Kein Zugriff Seiten 61 - 84 Matthias Hausmann
The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans Kein Zugriff Seiten 85 - 104 Ursula Kluwick
From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse Kein Zugriff Seiten 107 - 124 Valentine Gourinat
Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins Kein Zugriff Seiten 125 - 146 Luna Dolezal
The Protean Self Kein Zugriff Seiten 147 - 164 Denisa Butnaru
Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 165 - 186 Gero Guttzeit
The Cinematic Body Kein Zugriff Seiten 189 - 204 Stefan Kristensen
Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body Kein Zugriff Seiten 205 - 220 Julius Erdmann, Luna Dolezal, Ursula Kluwick, Bianca Westermann, Stephan Packard, Matthias Hausmann, Daniel Fetzner, Gero Guttzeit, Stefan Kristensen, Valentine Gourinat, Martin Dornberg
Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research Kein Zugriff Seiten 221 - 244 Daniel Fetzner, Martin Dornberg
The Aberrant Medial Body Kein Zugriff Seiten 245 - 262 Julius Erdmann
List of Authors Kein Zugriff Seiten 263 - 270 Denisa Butnaru
