Posthuman Gothic

Name: Posthuman Gothic
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Author: Anya Heise-von der Lippe
ISBN: 9781786831088

AvAnya Heise-von der Lippe

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Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality and mediality. The texts and media under discussion – from I am Legend to In the Flesh, and from Star Trek to The Truman Show, transgress the boundaries of genre, moving beyond the traditional scope of the Gothic. These texts, the contributors argue, destabilise ideas of the human in a number of ways. By confronting humanity and its Others, they introduce new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as human. Drawing on key texts of both Gothic and posthumanist theory, the contributors explore such varied themes as posthuman vampire and zombie narratives, genetically modified posthumans, the posthuman in video games, film and TV, the posthuman as a return to nature, the posthuman’s relation to classic monster narratives, and posthuman biohorror and theories of prometheanism and accelerationism. In its entirety, the volume offers a first attempt at addressing the various intersections of the posthuman and the Gothic in contemporary literature and media.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-01
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781786831088
Förlag:University of Wales Press
Serie:Gothic Literary Studies

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Anya Heise-von der Lippe is Assistant Lecturer with the Chair of Anglophone Literatures at the Universität Tübingen.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Post/human/Gothic - Anya Heise-von der LippePart I: Organic1 Zombie Apocalypse and the Conundrum of Posthumanity in David Wong’s Novels - Michael Sean Bolton2 Of Crakers and Men: Imagining the Future and Rethinking the Past in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy - Antonia Perikou3 Of Posthuman Vampires: Science, Blood and Becoming-With - Lars SchmeinkPart II: Undead4 ‘Lovie – is the vampire so bad?’: Posthuman Rhetoric in Richard Matheson’s I am Legend - Chris Koenig-Woodyard5 Coexistence and Hospitality: The Gothic Utopian Vision of True Blood - Erica McCrystal6 Forging Posthuman Identities in Dominic Mitchell’s In The Flesh - Maria Alberto7 More than Human: Reading the Doppelgänger and Female Monstrosity in Television Vampires - Maria Marino-FazaPart III: Evolving8 There’s Something in There: The Posthuman Gothic Mind/Body Divide in Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake - Amalya Ashman and Amy Taylor9 Still Alive: Understanding Femininity in Valve’s Portal Games - Dawn Stobbart10 Patchwork Girls: Reflections of Lost Female Identity in Louise O’Neill’s Only Ever Yours - Donna MitchellPart IV: Reimagined11 Being Virtual: The True (Posthu)man Show - Dennis Yeo12 The Posthuman Monstrous can only be Gothic, or Screening Alien Sex Fiends. - Evan Hayles Gledhill13 Gothic Inhumanism: Prometheanism, Nanotechnology, Accelerationism - Apasia StephanouBibliography Index

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