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"A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. (2011)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S.-P. (2011). "A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning. In S.-P. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 (73-86). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0005

This timely book explores what might be termed Gothic science fiction of the last three decades, 1980-2010. Identifying texts by this category may at first appear contradictory, as the Gothic's connotations of the irrational and supernatural seems to... Read More about "A butcher's shop where the meat still moved": Gothic doubles, organ harvesting and human cloning..

Introduction (2011)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S., & Palmer McCulloch, M. (2011). Introduction. In S. Lyall, & M. P. McCulloch (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (1-5). Edinburgh University Press

Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. (2011)
Book Chapter
Dryden, L. (2011). Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad. In M. Gardiner, G. Macdonald, & N. O'Gallagher (Eds.), Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature: Comparative Texts and Critical Perspectives (86-97). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637744.003.0006

This paper offers a comparative study of some of the colonial fictions of Stevenson and Conrad. It takes a postcolonial position, arguing that both Stevenson and Conrad were moving in the direction of literary modernism as they wrote fictions that at... Read More about Literary affinities and the postcolonial in Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad..

Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010 (2011)
Book Chapter
Alder, E., & Wasson, S.-P. (2011). Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. In Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0001

This Introduction introduces Gothic science fiction as a genre and discusses the text as a project to examine Gothic science fiction historically as well as to distinguish its textual forms. The chapters in this compilation provides sample writings p... Read More about Introduction: Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010.

Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle (2011)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2011). Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle. In S.-P. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0008

This chapter offers a literary criticism of Stephen Donaldson's novel Gap. It discusses that transfiguration of the body, through the study of molecular biology and genetic engineering, creates a cultural unrest and horror. The strange metamorphosis... Read More about Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle.

Comic: The New Abbess [Fantomen 24/2011] (2011)
Other
Bishop, D. (2011). Comic: The New Abbess [Fantomen 24/2011]. Sweden

A comic written for publisher Egmont, illustrated by artist Cesar Spadari. Originally published in Swedish, it was subsequently reprinted in English by Frew Comics in Australia.

Tagore on the creative principle. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fraser, B. (2011, October). Tagore on the creative principle. Paper presented at Tagore's Vision of the Contemporary World

Antigone: Raw Female (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Neill, C. (2011, August). Antigone: Raw Female. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy

Gothic at sea: ships, revenants, and the liminal realm of the ocean. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2011, August). Gothic at sea: ships, revenants, and the liminal realm of the ocean. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011

Many aspects of the ocean deep remain obscure to modern science and exploration, and in literature it has always been an area of mystery, sometimes of horror. Foucault’s characterisation of the ship as heterotopia, ‘a floating piece of space, a place... Read More about Gothic at sea: ships, revenants, and the liminal realm of the ocean..

Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wasson, S. (2011, August). Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011

The International Gothic Association facilitates dissemination of research in Gothic and horror from the eighteenth century to the present, and the Conference is held once every two years. This year, the conference is entitled ‘Gothic Limits’ and con... Read More about Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman..