02738nam 2200673 a 450 991046455900332120200520144314.00-8232-4099-10-8232-4837-2(CKB)3450000000003232(EBL)3239718(SSID)ssj0000550850(PQKBManifestationID)11408568(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550850(PQKBWorkID)10524228(PQKB)11474013(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035331(MiAaPQ)EBC3239718(OCoLC)652250371(MdBmJHUP)muse15063(Au-PeEL)EBL3239718(CaPaEBR)ebr10586776(OCoLC)923763953(EXLCZ)99345000000000323220080124d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPosthuman metamorphosis[electronic resource] narrative and systems /Bruce Clarke1st ed.New York Fordham University Pressc20081 online resource (254 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-2850-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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""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.Cyborgs in motion picturesHuman body in motion picturesCyborgs in literatureHuman body in literatureFantasy literature20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Cyborgs in motion pictures.Human body in motion pictures.Cyborgs in literature.Human body in literature.Fantasy literatureHistory and criticism.791.43/656Clarke Bruce1950-754874MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464559003321Posthuman metamorphosis2145544UNINA