When Peter Dobs is a young boy, a doctor’s visit to his classroom changes his life. Dr. Grimes shows the children a poster of the organs of the human body and explains their functions. From then on, Peter is interested in science, engineering, and biology. He works hard in school and is rewarded with a scholarship to a university, where he successfully performs a brain transplant between a monkey and a lion.

Soon Mr. Jeremy Atkins, a private citizen of high importance, invites Peter to dinner and offers him a job that will allow him to use his high intelligence and research into how the brain works to devise mind and body control devices. Peter is excited about the research but soon finds danger awaits him when he is stalked by al-Qaida terrorists who are dead set on finding out what he s researching-and making sure no one else finds out about it.

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The connection between speech and writing in human language has been a matter of philosophical debate since antiquity. By plumbing the depths of this complex relationship, Tony E. Jackson explains how the technology of alphabetic writing has determined the nature of the modern novel.Jackson’s analysis begins with the universal human act of oral storytelling. While telling stories is fundamental to human experience, writing is not. Yet the novel, perhaps more than any other literary form, depends on writing. In fact, as Jackson shows quite clearly, it is writing rather than print that most shapes the forms and contents of the genre.Through striking new readings of works by Austen, Mary Shelley, Dickens, Forster, Woolf, Lessing, and McEwan, Jackson reveals how the phenomena of speech and storytelling interact with the technological characteristics of writing. He also explains how those interactions induced the generic changes in the novel from its eighteenth-century beginnings to postmod… More >>

The Technology of the Novel: Writing and Narrative in British Fiction

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“Technologies of Gender builds a bridge between the fashionable orthodoxies of academic theory (Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, et al.) and the frequently-marginalized contributions of feminist theory…. In sum, de Lauretis has written a book that should be required reading for every feminist in need of theoretical ammunition — and for every theorist in need of feminist enlightenment.” — B. Ruby Rich”… sets philosophical ideas humming…. she has much to say.” — Cineaste”I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor.” — SubStanceThis book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and women’s cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture…. More >>

Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fiction