Medial Bodies between Fiction and Faction : : Reinventing Corporeality / / ed. by Denisa Butnaru.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Butnaru, Denisa,; Caracciolo, Marco,; Dolezal, Luna,; Dornberg, Martin,; Erdmann, Julius,; Fetzner, Daniel,; Gourinat, Valentine,; Guttzeit, Gero,; Hausmann, Matthias,; Kluwick, Ursula,; Kristensen, Stefan,; Packard, Stephan,; Westermann, Bianca,
• HerausgeberIn: Butnaru, Denisa,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: KörperKulturen
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Hybrid Bodies -- Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015) -- Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity -- Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia -- The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans -- II. Bodies Unbound: Disability, Ability, Enhancement -- From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse -- Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins -- The Protean Self -- Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction -- III. Corporeal Interfaces -- The Cinematic Body -- Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body -- Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research -- The Aberrant Medial Body -- List of Authors