Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Anglistik 2024.4

Trans­plan­ta­tion Goth­ic: tis­sue trans­fer in lit­er­a­ture, film, and med­i­cine
Trans­plan­ta­tion Goth­ic is a shad­ow cul­tur­al his­to­ry of trans­plan­ta­tion, as medi­at­ed through med­ical writ­ing, sci­ence fic­tion, life writ­ing and visu­al arts in a Goth­ic mode, from the nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry to the present. The works explore the expe­ri­ence of donor/suppliers, recip­i­ents and prac­ti­tion­ers, and simul­ta­ne­ous­ly express trans­fer-relat­ed suf­fer­ing and are com­plic­it in its era­sure. Exam­in­ing texts from Europe, North Amer­i­ca and India, the book resists exoti­cis­ing preda­to­r­i­al tis­sue economies and con­sid­ers fan­tasies of har­vest as both prod­uct and sym­bol of struc­tur­al ruina­tion under neolib­er­al cap­i­tal­ism. In their efforts to artic­u­late bio­engi­neered hybrid­i­ty, these works are not only anx­ious but spec­u­la­tive. The book will be of inter­est to aca­d­e­mics and stu­dents research­ing Goth­ic stud­ies, sci­ence fic­tion, crit­i­cal med­ical human­i­ties and cul­tur­al stud­ies of trans­plan­ta­tion.
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Read­ing time in music: tem­po­ral­ly vexed
In this book, Sarah Cash exam­ines the inter­sec­tion of music and tem­po­ral­i­ty in British lit­er­a­ture of the long nine­teenth cen­tu­ry. The sound spaces cre­at­ed at these inter­sec­tions func­tion as antimimet­ic resis­tance to hege­mon­ic struc­tures. Through its tem­po­ral mul­ti­plic­i­ty, music res­onates in excess of lin­ear time, reveal­ing a metaphor­ic sound­ed­ness in the text that sub­verts read­er expec­ta­tion and reveals how seem­ing­ly real­ist nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry nov­els trans­gress the lim­i­ta­tions of their clas­sic nar­ra­to­log­i­cal struc­tures. In even the most appar­ent­ly „real­ist“ texts, the most extrav­a­gant, exces­sive, and hyper­bol­ic ele­ments exceed the bounds of what we often con­sid­er real, dis­rupt­ing mimet­ic bias. Cash argues that music offers the most dynam­ic way to expose this vexed tem­po­ral­i­ty in the text. Through schol­ar­ly inter­ven­tion a dis­rup­tion of his­toric clas­si­fi­ca­tions show that Vic­to­ri­ans are heirs of Romanticism’s musi­cal ideals, includ­ing the pow­er of music to pen­e­trate and trans­form space and time and the per­ma­nence of sound as it rever­ber­ates beyond human per­cep­tion. Schol­ars of nine­teenth-cen­tu­ry lit­er­a­ture, tem­po­ral­i­ty, and gen­der stud­ies will find this book of par­tic­u­lar inter­est.
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