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Autore |
Yi Dongshin |
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Titolo |
A genealogy of cyborgothic : aesthetics and ethics in the age of posthumanism / / Dongshin Yi |
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London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-351-96250-7 |
1-351-96251-5 |
1-315-26392-0 |
1-282-52475-5 |
9786612524752 |
0-7546-9908-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (173 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Ethics in literature |
Literature and morals |
Future, The, in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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- |
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