04013oam 2200757I 450 991079112450332120221201234951.01-136-97317-61-136-97318-41-282-62965-497866126296550-203-85196-X10.4324/9780203851968(CKB)2560000000010061(EBL)534209(OCoLC)642661644(SSID)ssj0000412756(PQKBManifestationID)11259220(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412756(PQKBWorkID)10369083(PQKB)10099526(Au-PeEL)EBL534209(CaPaEBR)ebr10394322(CaONFJC)MIL262965(OCoLC)649437797(MiAaPQ)EBC534209(EXLCZ)99256000000001006120180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBeyond cyberpunk new critical perspectives /edited by Graham J. Murphy and Sherryl VintNew York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (282 p.)Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;3Description based upon print version of record.0-415-63419-9 0-415-87687-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sea Change(s) of Cyberpunk; Part I: Situating Cyberpunk; 1 Towards a Poetics of Cyberpunk; 2 "A Rare State of Ferment" SF Controversies from the New Wave to Cyberpunk; 3 Recognizing Patterns: Gibson's Hermeneutics from the Bridge Trilogy to Pattern Recognition; 4 Journeys Beyond Being: The Cyberpunk-Flavored Novels of Jeff Noon; Part II: The Political Economy of Cyberpunk; 5 Global Economy, Local Texts: Utopian/Dystopian Tension in William Gibson's Cyberpunk Trilogy6 "The Mainstream Finds its Own Uses for Things": Cyberpunk and Commodification7 Why Neo Flies, and Why He Shouldn't: The Critique of Cyberpunk in Gwyneth Jones's Escape Plans and M. John Harrison's Signs of Life; 8 Posthuman Melancholy: Digital Gaming and Cyberpunk; Part III: The Politics of Embodiment in Cyberpunk; 9 Feminist Cyberpunk; 10 Woken Carbon: The Return of the Human in Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs Trilogy; 11 Retrofitting Frankenstein; 12 Angel(LINK) of Harlem: Techno-Spirituality in the Cyberpunk Tradition; Afterword: The World Gibson Made; Contributors; BibliographyIndexThis book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never more been in need of a fiction capable of engaging with a world shaped by information technology. The essays in explore our cyberpunk realities to soberly reconsider Eighties-era cyberpunk while also mapping contemporary cyberpunk. The contributors seek to move beyond the narrow strictures of cyberpunRoutledge studies in contemporary literature ;3.Science fictionHistory and criticismCyberpunk cultureTechnology in literaturePostmodernism (Literature)Literature and technologyScience fictionHistory and criticism.Cyberpunk culture.Technology in literature.Postmodernism (Literature)Literature and technology.809.3/8762Murphy Graham J.1970-1517502Vint Sherryl1969-1467191MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791124503321Beyond cyberpunk3754626UNINA