Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Essi Varis.
• Editors: Karkulehto, Sanna; Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa; Varis, Essi
• Contents: Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading. 1. On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s) / Carole Guesse; 2. Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers / Karoliina Lummaa; 3. Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects / Kaisa Kortekallio -- Part 2. Imagining Aliens and Monsters. 4. Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters / Essi Varis; 5. Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator / Jonne Arjoranta; 6 Wild Things Squeezed in the Closet: Monsters of Children's Literature as Nonhuman Others / Marleena Mustola and Sanna Karkulehto -- Part 3. Becoming with Animals. 7 Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Siebert's Angus / Mikko Keskinen; 8. Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts / Brad Bolman; 9. Reconfiguring Human and Nonhuman Animals in a Guiding Assemblage: Towards Posthumanist Conception of Disability / Hana Porkertová -- Part 4. Technological (Co-)Agencies. 10. Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-Anthropocentric Semiotics / Cléo Collomb and Samuel Goyet; 11. Journeys in Intensity: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower, and Counterplay in Minecraft / Marleena Huuhka; 12. Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency / Patricia Flanagan and Raune Frankjær -- Part 5. Afterword: Unnarratable Matter? 13. Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism / Juha Raipola.
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.93356; Technology in literature; Virtual reality in literature; Biotechnology in literature; Humanism in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429243042; 0429243049; 9780429519628; 0429519621; 9780429512766; 0429512767; 9780429516191; 0429516193
• Related ISBNs: 9780367197476; 0367197472
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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