Connie Willis's science fiction : Doomsday every day /

In spite of Connie Willis's numerous science fiction awards and her groundbreaking history as a woman in the field, there is a surprising dearth of critical publication surrounding her work. Taking Doomsday Book as its cue, this collection argues that Connie Willis's most famous novel, alo...

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Other Authors: Smith, Carissa Turner (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2023].
Series:Routledge studies in contemporary literature.
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505 0 |a All this has happened before, and all this will happen again : Doomsday book and recurring pandemics / Joelle L. Renstrom -- Flip passes : interpreting agency and contagion in Bellwether / Jill Marie Treftz -- Emergency unpreparedness : responses to disaster in Connie Willis's Passage / Matthew Newcomb -- Taking it personally : private engagement with public trauma from World War II to J.F.K. / Janet Bland -- "You were here all along" : Doomsday book and the bodies of Christ / Chad Schrock -- Christmas every day : incarnational theology in Connie Willis's "Inn" and "Epiphany" / Erin Newcomb -- Bell speech in John Donne, Richard Wilbur, and Connie Willis's Doomsday book / William Tate -- Finding love (and truth?) In the midst of chaos : the influence of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective fiction on To say nothing of the dog / Christine Colón -- The mote in the jester's eye : aspects of race and gender in Connie Willis's light short fiction / Sylvia Kelso -- "Tell all the truth but tell it slant" : rhetorical humor in Connie Willis's short fiction / Rosalyn Eves -- Messages in a bottle : the historian's ethic in Connie Willis's quantum universe / Kathryn N. McDaniel -- Schrödinger's cathedrals : humanist memory and posthumanist sacramentality in Connie Willis's fiction / Carissa Turner Smith. 
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