Posthuman Metamorphosis [electronic resource] : Narrative and Systems /
Clarke, Bruce,1950-
New York : Fordham University Press,
c2008.
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.
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""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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Fantasy literature
Human body in literature.
Cyborgs in literature.
Human body in motion pictures.
Cyborgs in motion pictures.