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Prophets of the posthuman [electronic resource] : american fiction, biotechnology, and the ethics of personhood / Christina Bieber Lake

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Lake, Christina Bieber
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Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2013.
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1 online resource (pages cm)
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Project Muse
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Posthuman Vision -- 1.The Moral Imagination in Exile: Flannery O'Connor and Lee Silver at the Circus -- 2.Aylmer's Moral Infancy: Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Quest for Human Perfection -- pt. II Posthuman Bodies -- 3.The Faces of Others: George Saunders, James Tiptree Jr., and the Body for Sale -- 4.The Scorned People of the Earth: Reprogenetics and The Bluest Eye -- pt. III Posthuman Language -- 5.What Makes a Crake? The Reign of Technique and the Degradation of Language in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- 6.I Love Humanity, but I Don't Like You: Walker Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome and the Soul of Scientism -- pt. IV From Posthuman Individuals to Human Persons -- 7.Technology, Contingency, and Grace: Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing" -- 8.The Lure of Transhumanism versus the Balm in Gilead: Marilynne Robinson's Redemptive Alternative.
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9780268075866
0268075867
9780268022365 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268022364 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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