The Cambridge introduction to literary posthumanism:

At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this book offers a through-line. Beginning with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and continuing into the post-print, born-digital excursions of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, this literar...

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Beteilige Person: Tabbi, Joseph (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009256476?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009256476?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009256476?locatt=mode:legacy
Zusammenfassung:At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this book offers a through-line. Beginning with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and continuing into the post-print, born-digital excursions of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, this literary introduction defines posthumanism and provides a summary account of the key literary and cultural theorists in the field. It embraces humanist refusals from Melville's Bartelby to Thomas Pynchon's authorial surrogation, and more recent evasions and avoidances in the writing of William Gibson, Tom McCarthy, Coleson Whitehead, Jeanette Winterson, and Claire-Louise Bennett. This book also provides close readings of key posthuman fiction, poetry, and conceptual approaches that help ground the discipline
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Beyond the two cultures? -- Mary Shelley's modern, and Shelley Jackson's postmodern Prometheus -- Post-periodization -- Posthuman sublime -- Ah Bartleby, Ah humanities! From transcendentalism to posthumanism -- The posthuman imagination in contemporary literature -- Posthuman epic in the era of AI -- Interlude : N. Katherine Hayles and the cognitive turn in literary posthumanism -- Digital posthumanism (on the periphery)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 222 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009256476
DOI:10.1017/9781009256476