(En)gendering Artificial Intelligence in Cyberspace.
Artificial intelligences are an interesting test case for how readers construct fictional characters in SF in general. William Gibson's and Pat Cadigan's post-cyberpunk novels offer a different emphasis with regard to the attribution of gender characteristics because of the way they employ male and...
| Publicado en: | Yearbook of English Studies Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 129 - 146 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Modern Humanities Research Association
2007
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| Sumario: | Artificial intelligences are an interesting test case for how readers construct fictional characters in SF in general. William Gibson's and Pat Cadigan's post-cyberpunk novels offer a different emphasis with regard to the attribution of gender characteristics because of the way they employ male and female characters in figural narrative situations to focalize the emergence of the new virtual life forms. |
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