Genealogy of Cyborgothic : Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Posthumanism.
Title:
Genealogy of Cyborgothic : Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Posthumanism.
Author:
Yi, Dongshin, Dr.
ISBN:
9780754699088
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (173 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Beyond "The Ruin of Representation" -- 1 A Beautiful Attendant: The Rise of the Gothic Aesthetics of the Beautiful -- 2 A Beautiful Monster: The Fall of the Gothic Aesthetics of the Beautiful -- 3 Van Helsing's Dilemma: Science and Mill's Utilitarianism -- 4 A Humanistic Science in a Pragmatic Society: Re-Reading Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith -- 5 The Birth of Cyborgothic: Mothering the Cyborg in Marge Piercy's He, She and It -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
A Genealogy of the Cyborgothic imagines a new literary genre emerging from gothic literature and science fiction that will help to envision a cyborg-friendly, non-anthropocentric posthuman society. Dongshin Yi introduces mothering as an aesthetic and ethical practice that can enable a posthumanist relationship between human and non-human beings as he examines novels like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Arrowsmith alongside philosophical and critical works by Edmund Burke, William James, and others.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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