Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control.
Book
Wasson, S. (2014)
Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. In J. Edwards (Ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics, 99-112. Routledge
The Gothic has long been interested in failed communities, the snapping or violating of ties between kin or neighbours. As the Gothic mutates into new forms today, it is incre...
Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman.
Presentation / Conference
Wasson, S. (2011, August)
Medical Gothic: organ harvesting and medicalised abjection in Kazuo Ishiguro and Neal Shusterman. Paper presented at Gothic limits / Gothic Ltd.’: 10th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association. 2-5 August 2011., University of Heidelberg, Germany
The International Gothic Association facilitates dissemination of research in Gothic and horror from the eighteenth century to the present, and the Conference is held once eve...
Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'
Book
Vanheule, S., Hook, D., & Neill, C. (Eds.)
(2018). Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phallus' to 'Metaphor of the Subject'. London/New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429459221
The Écrits was Jacques Lacan’s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy a...
Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2010)
Olalla's legacy: twentieth century vampire fiction and genetic previvorship. Journal of Stevenson Studies, 7, 55-81
Although Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘Olalla’ does not use the word ‘vampire’ at any point, it contains a cluster of motifs that have led critics to identify it as a ...
Echo’s response: on identification and the necessary limitations of discursive research.
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2011, June)
Echo’s response: on identification and the necessary limitations of discursive research. Paper presented at The International Society for Theoretical Psychology Conference, Doing Psychology Under New Conditions, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
‘On imaginary identification and the possibility of meaning’
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2012, December)
‘On imaginary identification and the possibility of meaning’. Presented at Psychosocial Studies Seminar, Birkbeck College, London
Recalcitrant copies and vulnerable bodies: literary engagements with human cloning.
Conference Proceeding
Wasson, S. (2006)
Recalcitrant copies and vulnerable bodies: literary engagements with human cloning
Cannibal doubles: organ harvesting and the grotesque double in gothic science fiction.
Presentation / Conference
Wasson, S. (2009, July)
Cannibal doubles: organ harvesting and the grotesque double in gothic science fiction. Paper presented at International Gothic Association Biannual Conference, Lancaster University
‘Wit(h)nessing the other?’
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2007, January)
‘Wit(h)nessing the other?’. Presented at Research Institute for Health and Social Change Seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University
Love in the time of cloning: science fictions of transgressive kinship.
Journal Article
Wasson, S. (2004)
Love in the time of cloning: science fictions of transgressive kinship. Extrapolation. 45, 130-144. ISSN 0014-5483
This article presents a discussion on science fiction related to cloning. Science fiction has long played with the notion of the doubled self, and the speculative potential of...