Chapter III looks at the liberation offered by the virtual body, as well as its liabilities, in Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759), Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000). Chapter II questions the attempt to evade virtuality and machinery in order to reclaim “unmediated contact” through the “natural” body in Forster’s “The Machine Stops” (1909) and Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928). Chapter I examines virtuality’s relationship with nature in both virtual reality and mixed reality paradigms, beginning with nineteenth-century decadence and aestheticism - Huysmans’ A Rebours (1884) and Morris’ News from Nowhere (1890)-before moving to Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999), Gibson’s Spook Country (2007), and Vinge’s Synthetic Serendipity (2004). Drawing from Jacques Derrida and Marshall McLuhan, it responds to the “interface anxiety” evinced by environmental writers and ecocritics by arguing that nostalgia for an “authentic,” supplement-free mode of “contact” is itself a pastoral fiction. The Introduction examines the ambiguities surrounding the terms of its own investigation: cyberculture, ecology, interface, nature, virtuality. Even the most basic sense of what counts as an environment in the first place depends on the interfaces one uses. Understanding these effects is ecologically crucial, because technovirtual interfaces profoundly alter one’s experience of nature, corporeality, and relationships. Operating at the interface between ecocriticism and cyberculture, its approach is narrative-based and thematic, focusing on texts (literary, cinematic, and new media) which depict varying conceptions of technology, virtuality, and their effects. This catalog page is provided by The Online Books Page, and the literature by Project Gutenberg."Cybercultural Ecologies examines the interpenetrating relationships between nature, virtuality, and narrative. Minho : Universidade do Minho (Portugal).Readingrooms : Project Gutenberg Reading Rooms (Washington State, USA).Main site Readingrooms UK Mirror Minho Pacific Additional formats may also be available from the main Gutenberg site. Select author names above for additional information and titlesĭownload the ebook in a format below. The Picture of Dorian Gray (13-chapter version, 1890) from Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg Presents The Picture of Dorian Gray (13-chapter version, 1890) by Oscar Wilde
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