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

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 oxymoro ...