Words as Witness: Remembering the Present in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
| Item Type | Journal paper |
| Abstract | In times of radical change, a double bind underwriting modes of knowing increases as habits in perception are destabilized. The agency of cognition is greatly dependent on techniques of recognition, while the ability to rethink or recognize is bound up in and facilitated through processes of aesthetic organization, with representation important amongst them. In a context of radical change, what challenges might language and literature face as possible modes of cognition and representation? Originally published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus emerges from an era defined by radical change. I want to reconsider its capacity for addressing change by reading it as a technography – writing that is both about technology while also functioning in the capacity of technology – with regard to its techniques of usage, how language as a theme in the novel has been and might be interpreted, and how these together relate to the novel’s historically situated reflections on techno-social transition. |
| Authors | Loren, Scott |
| Editors | Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret & Hilpert, Martin |
| Journal or Publication Title | SPELL Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature |
| Language | English |
| Keywords | Frankenstein, dual revolution, language as technology, modernity, technography, techno-social transition |
| Subjects | social sciences cultural studies other research area |
| HSG Classification | contribution to scientific community |
| HSG Profile Area | SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM) |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Date | 2018 |
| Publisher | Narr Franke Attempo Verlag |
| Place of Publication | Tübingen |
| Volume | SPELL Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature |
| Number | 36 |
| Page Range | 67-100 |
| Contact Email Address | scott.loren@unisg.ch |
| Depositing User | Dr. Scott Loren |
| Date Deposited | 01 Mar 2019 11:09 |
| Last Modified | 01 Mar 2019 11:09 |
| URI: | https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/publications/256708 |
DownloadFull text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)CitationLoren, Scott (2018) Words as Witness: Remembering the Present in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. SPELL Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature, SPELL Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (36). 67-100. Statisticshttps://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/id/eprint/256708
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