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The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism

Book launch of Joseph Tabbi´s new book

The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism.
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Program:

  • Presentation of the book by author Professor Joseph Tabbi
  • Discussion Panel on the book with Joseph Tabbi (Professor, UiB) Anna Nacher (Associate Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts, Jagiellonian University in Kraków), Scott Rettberg (Professor and Director Center for Digital Narrative, UiB), and Jill Walker Rettberg (Professor, UiB)

About the book

From Cambridge University Press:

At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this book offers a through-line. Beginning with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and continuing into the post-print, born-digital excursions of Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, this literary introduction defines posthumanism and provides a summary account of the key literary and cultural theorists in the field. It embraces humanist refusals from Melville's Bartelby to Thomas Pynchon's authorial surrogation, and more recent evasions and avoidances in the writing of William Gibson, Tom McCarthy, Coleson Whitehead, Jeanette Winterson, and Claire-Louise Bennett. This book also provides close readings of key posthuman fiction, poetry, and conceptual approaches that help ground the discipline.

  • Distinguishes literary and critical posthumanism from speculative concerns with singularities and transhuman enhancements
  • Brings in key formulations of posthuman approaches from scientific and technological fields of study
  • Offers close readings of key posthuman fiction, poetry, and conceptual approaches that help ground the discipline