Postwar literature (and postwar SF in particular) is marked by a concern that emerging techno-cultural developments would undermine the sovereignty of the humanist subject. The mass production of culture and an increasing dependency on technologies were seen as inimical to individualism, literary culture, and human agency. In the same period, new research into the cognitive and behavioural capacities of nonhuman animals put further pressure on the exceptional status of the humanist subject. Drawing on recent work in posthumanist theory and animal studies, I produce a new reading of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 in the light of this twofold crisis of human exceptionalism. I claim that Bradbury’s novel typifies a broader tendency in postwar c...
Animals, the nonhuman varieties, have appeared as subjects in human stories since human stories bega...
This thesis examines the relationship between evolutionary theory and popular culture to better unde...
This dissertation reexamines literary and scientific inquiries into the relationship between the hum...
This thesis argues that the culture of the cold war United States is marked by a fantasy of ‘the hum...
The diversity of scholarly contributions to the interdisciplinary fields of animal studies and posth...
In the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin and other proponents of evolutionary theory provided a the...
This thesis argues that the culture of the cold war United States is marked by a fantasy of ‘the hum...
Ray Bradbury explores in his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (henceforth F451), the destructive side ...
Ray Bradbury explores in his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (henceforth F451), the destructive side ...
The arrival of a particular type of technology, sociable robots, can challenge our understanding of ...
On the Road by Jack Kerouac provides a view into the 1950s, a time when technology is in the sweet s...
On the Road by Jack Kerouac provides a view into the 1950s, a time when technology is in the sweet s...
Science fiction (‘SF’) is often understood as a literature of radical possibilities—but to what ext...
Science fiction (‘SF’) is often understood as a literature of radical possibilities—but to what ex...
This project discusses the ways in which Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 functions as an indictm...
Animals, the nonhuman varieties, have appeared as subjects in human stories since human stories bega...
This thesis examines the relationship between evolutionary theory and popular culture to better unde...
This dissertation reexamines literary and scientific inquiries into the relationship between the hum...
This thesis argues that the culture of the cold war United States is marked by a fantasy of ‘the hum...
The diversity of scholarly contributions to the interdisciplinary fields of animal studies and posth...
In the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin and other proponents of evolutionary theory provided a the...
This thesis argues that the culture of the cold war United States is marked by a fantasy of ‘the hum...
Ray Bradbury explores in his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (henceforth F451), the destructive side ...
Ray Bradbury explores in his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 (henceforth F451), the destructive side ...
The arrival of a particular type of technology, sociable robots, can challenge our understanding of ...
On the Road by Jack Kerouac provides a view into the 1950s, a time when technology is in the sweet s...
On the Road by Jack Kerouac provides a view into the 1950s, a time when technology is in the sweet s...
Science fiction (‘SF’) is often understood as a literature of radical possibilities—but to what ext...
Science fiction (‘SF’) is often understood as a literature of radical possibilities—but to what ex...
This project discusses the ways in which Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 functions as an indictm...
Animals, the nonhuman varieties, have appeared as subjects in human stories since human stories bega...
This thesis examines the relationship between evolutionary theory and popular culture to better unde...
This dissertation reexamines literary and scientific inquiries into the relationship between the hum...