Foreword from the Editors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword from the Editors V
3. Contents VII
4. Special Focus: Symbols of the Future. The Future of Symbolism
5. Introduction: Symbols of the Future. The Future of Symbolism 1
6. Symbol’s Risks: A Note on the Interrelationship of Art and the Use of Symbols 19
7. ‘Symbolic Futures’ as Investment 33
8. On the Future Role of Symbols in Environmental Modelling 51
9. The Symbolization of the Female Body in Western Culture from Ancient Greece to the Transmodern Period 69
10. Genre and Utopia, or 48 Hrs. for the Future: Perspectives in Media Aesthetics 89
11. The Past Is Immutable: Technology’s Symbolism and the Future in Black Mirror 111
12. “Players and painted stage”: Symbolizing the Future in Shaw’s Back to Methuselah 123
13. Herzlian Matrix: Theme Parks, Promised Lands, and Simulacra 139
14. Reading the Future through the Past: Symbolism in Amitav Ghosh’s Anthropogenic Fiction 167
15. The Cyborg, Symbol of the Evolution of the Human, or The Human of the Future 191
16. “An ocean of thought”: AI, Robots, and Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me and People Like You (2019) 205
17. Book Reviews
18. Sarah C. Bishop. Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement 223
19. Sandra Dinter. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel 229
20. Johannes Riquet. The Aesthetics of Island Space: Perception, Ideology, Geopoetics 235
21. Lyndsey Stonebridge. Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees 241
22. List of Contributors 247
23. Index 251