Daniel Cordle: 2 books
Postmodern Postures
Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In 1996 the physicist Alan Sokal planted a hoax article in the journal Social Text, mimicking the social constructionist view of science popular in the humanities, and sparked into life the ’science wars’ which had been rumbling throughout the 1990s. Postmodern Postures puts this contemporary...
Late Cold War Literature and Culture
The Nuclear 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
This book analyses the 1980s as a nuclear decade, focusing on British and United States fiction. Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children’s and young adult literature, thrillers and horror, it shows how pressing nuclear...