New Literary History focuses on theory and interpretation-the reasons for literary change, the definitions of periods, and the evolution of styles, conventions, and genres. Throughout its history, NLH has always resisted short-lived trends and subsuming ideologies. By delving into the theoretical bases of practical criticism, the journal reexamines the relation between past works and present critical and theoretical needs. A major international forum for scholarly interchange, NLH has brought into English many of today' s foremost theorists whose works had never before been translated. Under Ralph Cohen's continuous editorship, NLH has become what he envisioned over thirty years ago: "a journal that is a challenge to the profession of letters." NLH has the unique distinction of receiving six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).
Volume 36, Number 2, Spring 2005
Special Issue: Essays Probing the Boundaries of the Human in Science and Science Fiction
CONTENTS:
Fromm, Harold, Muses, Spooks, Neurons, and the Rhetoric of "Freedom"
Pethes, Nicolas, Terminal Men: Biotechnological Experimentation and the Reshaping of "the Human" in Medical Thrillers
Hahn, Torsten, Risk Communication and Paranoid Hermenutics: Towards a Distinction Between "Medical Thrillers" and "Mind-Control Thrillers" in Narrations on Biocontrol
Wald, Priscilla, What's in a Cell?: John Moore's Spleen and the Language of Bioslavery
Werber, Niels, Geo- and Biopolitics of Middle-earth: A German Reading of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Lynch, Lisa, Strange Germs and Hopeful Monsters: Alexander Laing's 1930s American Biotechnology Tales
Kirby, David A.
Gaither, Laura A., Genetic Coming of Age: Genomics, Enhancement, and Identity in Film
Milburn, Colin, Nano/Splatter: Disintegrating the Postbiological Body
Vrbancic, Mario, Burroughs's Phantasmic Maps
Hayles, N. Katherine, Commentary: The Search for the Human