135582 20240605121015.0 doi 10.1515/pol-2023-2006 sideral 138697 ART-2023-138697 eng Onega, Susana Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-1672-4276 Of Sexbots, Cyborgs and Artificial Intelligence: Articulations of the Posthuman Subject in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story 2023 Jeanette Winterson’s latest novel, Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019), was written as a contribution to the world-wide celebrations of the second centenary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Evincing the characteristic excessiveness and parodic stance of the postmodern romance, it alternates two interlocked story lines. The first, narrated by Mary Shelley, is situated during her own life span and populated by Mary herself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont. The second, situated in 2018, is narrated by Dr Ry Shelley, a transgender medical doctor who sells body parts to Prof. Victor Stein, a cutting-edge researcher in Artificial Intelligence. The essay argues that for all its parodic doubleness, temporal circularity, thematic enmeshment and palimpsestic structure, the novel draws a clear-cut distinction between the Idealist conception of subjectivity endorsed by the male Romantic poets that leads to Prof. Stein’s transmodern conception of a future universe colonised by bodiless enhanced humans, and Mary Shelley’s affectively charged conception of embodied subjectivity that foreruns Ry Shelley’s posthuman conception of fluid subjectivity. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PID2021-124841NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 17, 1 (2023), 89-109 Polemos Polemos 2035-5262 504261 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135582/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1459212 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/135582/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:135582 articulos driver 2024-06-05-10:50:57 ARTICLE