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Medial bodies between fiction and faction : reinventing corporeality /

In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Butnaru, Denisa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Body cultures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Gazing Upon the Cyborg as An Unreliable Cartoon: On Some Issues from Superior Iron Man (2014-2015)
  • Robots which draw. How BioArt rethinks Body and Hybridity
  • Artificial human beings and the power of literature: Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Holmberg, and Piglia
  • The Aesthetics of Bodies in Translation: From The Water-Babies to Real Humans
  • From Disability to Enhancement: Paradoxical Representations of Prosthetic Bodies in the Media Discourse
  • Disability as Malleability: The Prosthetic Metaphor, Merleau-Ponty and the Case of Aimee Mullins
  • The Protean Self
  • Detecting Bodies: The Dystopian Detective Film and Narratives of Reproduction
  • The Cinematic Body
  • Embodying the Reader: Perspectives on Fiction, Cognition, and the Body
  • Medial Bodies: Forays into Artistic and Philosophical- Anthropological Research
  • The Aberrant Medial Body
  • List of Authors