Introduction .................................................... 7
CHAPTER ONE. Parsing theory, parsing the body .................. 27
1 Theoretical Concerns ........................................ 30
1.1 Images of the body ..................................... 30
1.2 Cyberspace ............................................. 34
2 The Textual Body ............................................ 39
2.1 Terminology: Hypertext, Node, Lexia, Link .............. 39
2.2 Major Trends in Criticism .............................. 49
3 The Human Body .............................................. 72
3.1 Having a Body: Radical, Technocentric Posthumanism ..... 78
3.2 Being a Body: Moderate, Anthropocentric Posthumanism ... 85
CHAPTER TWO. Cyborgs imagined: Pat Cadigan's Synners ........... 93
1 Cyborg ...................................................... 95
2 Cyberpunk .................................................. 102
3 The Textual Body ........................................... 112
4 The Human Body ............................................. 118
CHAPTER THREE. Reassembling the body in hypertext: Shelley
Jackson's Patchwork girl ...................................... 131
1 The Textual Body ........................................... 136
2 The Human Body ............................................. 163
CHAPTER FOUR. Re/constructing the embodied self in cybertext:
Talan Memmott's Lexia to perplexia ............................ 183
1 The Textual Body ........................................... 188
2 The Human Body ............................................. 211
Conclusion .................................................... 233
Works cited ................................................... 238
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