Post-Human Mimesis and the Debunked Machine: Reading Environmental Appropriation in Poe's Maelzel's Chess-Player" and "The Man That Was Used Up."
Presents a study that uses N. Katherine Hayles's observations about the status of environmental relatedness in the posthuman subject as a starting point for a rather different kind of analysis than the one she has offered in her 1999 study, "How We Became Posthuman." Examination of a particular vers...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Literature Studies Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 356 - 377 |
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Pennsylvania State University Press
2004
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| Sumario: | Presents a study that uses N. Katherine Hayles's observations about the status of environmental relatedness in the posthuman subject as a starting point for a rather different kind of analysis than the one she has offered in her 1999 study, "How We Became Posthuman." Examination of a particular version of posthuman subjectivity; Overturning of the subject of liberal humanism that can already be seen at work in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe; Implications on comparative literature studies. |
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