132 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

In literary studies and beyond, ‘theory’ and its aftermaths have arguably been over-influenced by US- and UK-based institutions, publishers, journals, and academics. Yet the influence of theory in its Anglo-American forms has remained reliant on Continental European ideas. Similar patterns can be discerned within the latest theoretical paradigm – posthumanism. European ideas influence... Read more

Introduction: Dis/locating Posthumanism in European Literary and Critical Traditions Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter and Manuela Rossini

1. Posthuman Affect Pieter Vermeulen

2. Human Without Qualities: Or, can Alan Turing help us to acknowledge androids? Yves Abrioux

3. Telefoam: Species on the shores of Cixous and Derrida Lynn Turner

4. Towards a Posthumanist Ecology: Nature without humanity in Wordsworth and Shelley Emmanouil Aretoulakis

5. Meaning without subject: ‘Melanctha’ and the relation of communication to the human mind Cristina Iuli

6. In Search of a Lost Future: The Posthuman Child Kinga Földváry

Biography

Stefan Herbrechter is a freelance academic; a research fellow at Coventry University, UK; and Privatdozent at Heidelberg University, Germany.

Ivan Callus is Associate Professor of English at the University of Malta.

Manuela Rossini is an independent academic, and an associated researcher in the Department of English at the University of Basel, Switzerland.