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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789318103321

Autore

Clarke Bruce <1950->

Titolo

Posthuman metamorphosis [[electronic resource] ] : narrative and systems / / Bruce Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8232-4099-1

0-8232-4837-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/656

Soggetti

Cyborgs in motion pictures

Human body in motion pictures

Cyborgs in literature

Human body in literature

Fantasy literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction""; ""Narrative and Systems""; ""Nonmodern Metamorphosis""; ""System and Form""; ""Metamorphosis and Embedding""; ""Communicating The Fly""; ""Posthuman Viability""; ""The Neocybernetic Posthuman""; ""Notes ""; ""Bibliography ""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

From Dr. Moreau's Beast People to David Cronenberg's Brundlefly, Stanislaw Lem's robot constructors in the Cyberiad to Octavia Butler's human/alien constructs in the Xenogenesis trilogy, this examines modern and postmodern stories of corporeal transformation through interlocking frames of posthumanism, narratology, and second-order systems theory. New media generate new metamorphs.