This article focuses on the notion of posthuman from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Ishiguro's Never Let me go. It discusses three different forms of posthumanity from that embodied by the creature in Frankenstein, whereby a human mind is entrapped in a body that is the result of a combination of organs, muscles and tissues taken from various corpses, it then explores HCE's posthumanity in Finnegans Wake, in which he undergoes a techno-chemical process that enables him to turn into a radio-transmitter, to the clones of Never Let Me Go, whom Ishiguro depicts as more human than humans.
'Not even the same nature as man': Monsters, Machinic Bodies and Clones in Shelley, Joyce and Ishiguro
VOLPONE, Annalisa
2016
Abstract
This article focuses on the notion of posthuman from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Ishiguro's Never Let me go. It discusses three different forms of posthumanity from that embodied by the creature in Frankenstein, whereby a human mind is entrapped in a body that is the result of a combination of organs, muscles and tissues taken from various corpses, it then explores HCE's posthumanity in Finnegans Wake, in which he undergoes a techno-chemical process that enables him to turn into a radio-transmitter, to the clones of Never Let Me Go, whom Ishiguro depicts as more human than humans.File in questo prodotto:
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