Myth, Technology, and the (Post)Human Subject in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy

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Myth, Technology, and the (Post)Human Subject in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy is written by Markus Kienscherf and published by GRIN Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 363844077X (ISBN 10) and 9783638440776 (ISBN 13).

Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: Distinction, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics), language: English, abstract: Gibson’s fiction both embraces the potential of technology for undermining traditional categories and, at the same time, encodes a nostalgic longing for the stable identities produced by these very categories. This study will show how William Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy blends high-tech and myth in order to articulate an oxymoronic tension between possessed and possessive individualism. This oxymoronic tension is expressed through Gibson's literary production of two particular technologies: the cyborg and the net. This study will interrogate these two literary constructs in Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy in order to show how they impinge on ideas of signification, subjectivity, and identity.