Bøker av Dominika Oramus

(Eco)Anxiety in Nuclear Holocaust Fiction and Climate Fiction demonstrates that disaster fiction-nuclear holocaust and climate change alike-allows us to unearth and anatomize contemporary psychodynamics, and enables us to identify pre-traumatic stress as the common denominator of seemingly unrelated types of texts.

The book demonstrates the thematic unity underlying Carter's fiction and non-fiction, highlighting their interdependence and demonstrating how her texts persistently examine existing theories of pleasure from many different angles. In this way, Carter's works enter into dialogue with numerous pleasure connoisseurs, theorists as well as writers.

The book offers comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Special attention is paid to Darwin's problem with human ancestry, Darwinism and the humanities, and the lives of Charles and Emma Darwin as contemporary myths.