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- The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism
- The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Beyond the Two Cultures?
- Chapter 2 Mary Shelley’s Modern and Shelley Jackson’s Postmodern Prometheus
- Chapter 3 Postperiodization
- Chapter 4 Posthuman Sublime
- Chapter 5 Ah Bartleby, Ah Humanities!
- Chapter 6 The Posthuman Imagination in Contemporary Literature
- Chapter 7 Posthuman Epic in the Era of AI
- Chapter 8 Interlude
- Chapter 9 Digital Posthumanism (On the Periphery)
- Epilogue:
- A Collaborative Glossary of Terms (In Process)
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Chapter 7 - Posthuman Epic in the Era of AI
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2024
- The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism
- The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Beyond the Two Cultures?
- Chapter 2 Mary Shelley’s Modern and Shelley Jackson’s Postmodern Prometheus
- Chapter 3 Postperiodization
- Chapter 4 Posthuman Sublime
- Chapter 5 Ah Bartleby, Ah Humanities!
- Chapter 6 The Posthuman Imagination in Contemporary Literature
- Chapter 7 Posthuman Epic in the Era of AI
- Chapter 8 Interlude
- Chapter 9 Digital Posthumanism (On the Periphery)
- Epilogue:
- A Collaborative Glossary of Terms (In Process)
- Works Cited
- Index
- Cambridge Introductions to Literature
Summary
No clearer opposition can be found, for the replacement of a romantic, male, transcendentalist neglect of “matter” with an ever-emerging, multigendered, multigeneric, and intertextual materialism. And no literary activity addresses this materialism more fully than a shared, unabashedly sensual engagement with new vocabularies and the intertextual renewal of earlier literary accomplishments. Winterson in this passage is imagining the convergence of sensual and mental experience that moved Mary Shelley toward a life-changing literary engagement. It is an aesthetic projection by Winterson, in her own fictive work, on the same order as Mary and Percy Shelley’s shared reading (and Mary’s rewriting) of Ovid’s classic.
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- The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism , pp. 114 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024