TY  - GEN
T1  - Fantasies of self-mourning : modernism, the posthuman and the finite
T2  - Critical posthumanisms (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
A1  - Borg, Ruben
LA  - English
PP  - Leiden
PB  - Brill : Rodopi
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1082519169
AB  - In 'Fantasies of Self-Mourning' Ruben Borg describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism. The book's central claim is that modernism invents the posthuman as a way to think through the contradictions of its historical moment. Borg develops a posthumanist critique of the concept of organic life based on comparative readings of Pirandello, Woolf, Beckett, and Flann O'Brien, alongside discussions of Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, Bela Tarr, Ridley Scott and Mamoru Oshii. The argument draws together a cluster of modernist narratives that contemplate the separation of a cybernetic eye from a human body-or call for a tearing up of the body understood as a discrete organic unit capable of synthesizing desire and sense perception.
OP  - 220
CN  - PN56.M54 B67 2019eb
SN  - 9789004390355
SN  - 9004390359
SN  - 9789004390348
SN  - 9004390340
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Death in literature.
KW  - Death in motion pictures.
KW  - Modernisme (Littérature)
KW  - Mort dans la littérature.
KW  - Mort au cinéma.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary.
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Death in motion pictures
ER  -