Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781107086203
Subjects: Humanities, research
Description: "The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman is the first work of its kind to gather diverse critical treatments of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume. Fifteen scholars from six different countries address the historical and aesthetic dimensions of posthuman figures alongside posthumanism as a new paradigm in the critical humanities. The three parts and their chapters trace the history of the posthuman in literature and other media, including film and video games; and identifies major political, philosophical, and techno-scientific issues raised in the literary and cinematic narratives of the posthuman and posthumanist discourses"--