Fantasies of Self-mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite

Focusing on a recurring theme in twentieth-century film and literature, the fantasy of surviving one’s own death, Fantasies of Self-Mourning describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism.

Ruben Borg is Chair of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published numerous articles on modernism, has co-edited two books on Flann O’Brien, and is the author of The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida (2007).