Dongshin Yi

A Genealogy of Cyborgothic

Aesthetics and Ethics in the Age of Posthumanism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781409400394
• ISBN-10: 1409400395
• Artikelnr.: 45192351

Autorenporträt

Dongshin Yi is a Lecturer in the Department of English at Texas A&M University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: beyond 'the ruin of representation'
A beautiful attendant: the rise of the gothic aesthetics of the beautiful
A beautiful monster: the fall of the gothic aesthetics of the beautiful
Van Helsing's dilemma: science and Mill's utilitarianism
A humanistic science in a pragmatic society: re-reading Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith
The birth of cyborgothic: mothering the cyborg in Marge Piercy's He, She and It
Works cited
Index.