Blood's Will : Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2018

1433157675 / 9781433157677

Serie: Libro 12 di 16 - Complicated Conversation

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - In Blood's Will: Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere, main character Campbell Cote Phillips-a successful university professor, mother, and wife-faces the question 'what would she give up to have everything else ' Her comfortable life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that not everything is always as it appears to be. The story unfolds between the 1970s and contemporary Baltimore, weaving together the experiences of Finn (an unusual vampire with a strange history) and Campbell-along with a cast of characters across different generations-whose stories are portrayed in base-relief against the promise, or peril, of immortality. Blood's Will is about love and desire, but it is also about family, friends, and the choices we all make. To be human is to sacrifice. To be vampire is to have endless opportunities.As Noel Gough writes, 'Understanding curriculum work as a storytelling practice has been a key theme in the reconceptualisation of curriculum studies during the last three decades, encapsulated by Madeleine Grumet's formulation of curriculum as 'the collective story we tell our children about our past, our present, and our future.'' Situated as a story embedded in the four stages of currere, the journey of the book's main characters exemplifies the journey of recursion: the regressive, the progressive, the analytical, and the synthetic. Blood's Will is an example of speculative fiction that 'can contribute to an aspect of effective deliberation that Schwab called 'the anticipatory generation of alternatives'' (Gough). This book is a useful reading for courses examining roles of narrative, fiction, and currere as fields of inquiry.…

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Titolo
Blood's Will : Speculative Fiction, Existence, and Inquiry of Currere
Autore
Morna McDermott McNulty
Editore
Peter Lang, Peter Lang
Anno di pubblicazione
2018
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1433157675
ISBN 13
9781433157677
Peso dell'articolo
387 grammi
Dimensioni
225x150x15 mm
Serie
Libro 12 di 16: Complicated Conversation

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