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At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this literary introduction defines Posthumanism, gives a summary account of the key literary and cultural theorists in the field, provides close readings of posthuman fiction, poetry, and conceptual approaches that help ground the discipline.
List of contents
List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: not just another period; 1. Beyond the Two Cultures?; 2. Mary Shelley's modern and Shelley Jackson's postmodern Prometheus; 3. Post-periodization; 4. Posthuman sublime; 5. Ah Bartleby, ah humanities! from transcendentalism to posthumanism; 6. The posthuman imagination in contemporary literature; 7. Posthuman epic in the era of AI; 8. Interlude: N. Katherine Hayles and the cognitive turn in literary posthumanism; 9. Digital posthumanism (on the periphery); Epilogue: platform post(?) pandemic; A collaborative glossary of terms (in process); Works cited; Index.
About the author
Joseph Tabbi is an American academic and literary theorist who relocated to the University of Bergen in 2019. He has made significant contributions to the field of experimental American fiction in both print and electronic media. He is the author of Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Postmodern Sublime (1995). He was the first scholar granted access to the William Gaddis archives and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015).
Summary
At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this literary introduction defines Posthumanism, gives a summary account of the key literary and cultural theorists in the field, provides close readings of posthuman fiction, poetry, and conceptual approaches that help ground the discipline.
Foreword
Defines posthumanism and provides a summary account of the key literary and cultural theorists in the field.
