Posthuman Gothic /

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Imprint:Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2017.
Description:xii, 275 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Gothic literary studies
Gothic literary studies.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11672348
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Other authors / contributors:Heise-von der Lippe, Anya, editor.
ISBN:1786831066
9781786831064
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: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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505 0 |a Introduction: Post/human/Gothic / Anya Heise-von der Lippe -- Zombie apocalypse and the conundrum of posthumanity in David Wong's novels / Micheal Sean Bolton -- Of crakers and men : imagining the future and rethinking the past in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Antonia Peroikou -- Of posthuman vampires : science, blood and becoming-with / Lars Schmeink -- "Lovie - is the vampire so bad?" : posthuman rhetoric in Richard Matheson's I am Legend / Chris Koenig-Woodyard -- Coexistence and hospitality : the Gothic utopian vision of True Blood / Erica McCrystal -- Forging posthuman identitites in Dominic Mitchell's In the flesh / Maria Alberto -- More than human : reading the Doppelgänger and female monstrosity in television vampires / Maria Marino-Faza -- There's something in there : the posthuman Gothic mind/body divide in Jane Campion's Top of the lake / Amalyaq Ashman and Amy Taylor -- Still alive : understanding femininity in Valve's Portal games / Dawn Stobbart -- Patchwork girls : reflections of lost female identity in Louise O'Neill's Only ever yours / Donna Mitchell -- Being virtual : the true (posthu)man show / Dennis Yeo -- The posthuman monstrous can only be Gothic, or Screeing alien sex fiends / Evan Hayles Gledhill -- Gothic inhumanism : Prometheanism, nanotechnology, accelerationism / Aspasia Stephanou. 
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