Emily Horton

Bio: Emily Horton is an academic researcher from Brunel University London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychology & Uncanny. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 13 publications receiving 48 citations.

21st Century Trauma and the Uncanny

Abstract: In Pat Barker’s 2003 novel Double Vision, the intertwining of traumatic and uncanny aesthetics works to affirm the role of the unconscious in traumatic memory, drawing attention to the uneasy connection between trauma, violence, and libidinal fantasy, and offering through this a generic challenge to overly mimetic traumatic representations. The ambivalent significance of traumatic memory as a source both of hermeneutic excess and psychological insight is foremost here, offering brief glimpses into the hidden fantasies of impacted characters. As such, the novel can be read as a semi-Gothic exploration of traumatic pathology, highlighting trauma’s experiential ‘possession’ of an individual or culture in its happening, and questioning along with this the opposing ‘traumatological’, fantastic, and ideological bases for traumatic suffering. The findings of this examination in turn infer a larger pronouncement on the ambivalent ethics of traumatic representation and the critical need for narrative and artistic self-examination.

The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Abstract: Series Introduction Nick Hubble, Philip Tew and Leigh Wilson \ Volume Introduction Philip Tew, Leigh Wilson and Joe Brooker \ Notes on Contributors \ 1. Bombs, Kidnappings and Yuppies: The Literary History of the Decade Emily Horton \ 2. Thatcherism and Literature Joseph Brooker \ 3. The Awakening of Caledonias? Scottish Literature in the 1980s Monica Germana \ 4. Black British Women's Fiction in the 1980s Susan Alice Fischer \ 5. From the Heritage Act to Radical Historiography: History in the 1980s Alex Murray \ 6. Generic Discontinuities and Variations in Fiction of the 1980s Frederick M. Holmes \ 7. British novels of 1980s: International Contexts Jung Su \ Timeline \ Brief Biographies \ Bibliography \ Index

A Voice without a Name: Gothic Homelessness in Ali Smith’s Hotel World and Trezza Azzopardi’s Remember Me

Abstract: Writing on the experience of trauma and violence in the twentieth century, Avery Gordon invokes the notion of ‘spectral’ or ‘ghostly’ people, whom, she argues, offer a vivid metaphor for modernity’s hidden processes of abjection. She writes, ‘The ghost is not simply a dead or a missing person, but a social figure, and investigating it can lead to that dense site where history and subjectivity make social life’ (2008, p. 8). More specifically, the ghost represents for her the principal ‘form by which something lost or invisible or seemingly not there to our supposedly well-trained eyes, makes itself known or apparent to us’, in this way offering a ‘haunting reminder’ of ‘modernity’s violence and wounds’ in the social world (2008, p. 8). On a similar note, Judith Butler and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak also write of ‘spectral humans’ constructed within late capitalism, whom, they suggest, are ‘produced as the stateless at the same time that they are jettisoned from juridical modes of belonging’ (2010, pp. 15–16). Butler explains: It is not just that some humans are treated as humans, and others are dehumanized; it is rather that dehumanization becomes the condition for the production of the human to the extent that a “Western” civilization defines itself over and against a population understood as, by definition, illegitimate, if not dubiously human. … [In this sense,] the spectrally human, the deconstituted, are maintained and detained, made to live and die within that extra-human and extra-juridical sphere of life. (2004, p. 91)

A Conflicted Inheritance: The Opposing Styles of Wilde, Forster and Firbank in The Swimming-Pool Library

Abstract: This chapter explores the importance of style in The Swimming-Pool Library (1988) in terms of an inheritance of earlier, influential gay literary voices, including most prominently those of Oscar Wilde, EM Forster and Ronald Firbank I argue that while Hollinghurst initially establishes a Wildean stylistic framework, which imbues the novel with a combination of Gothic mystery, sensuality and sentimentality, in other ways he complicates this inflection, interpolating a more direct but also camp creative vision, comparable in different ways to the writing of Forster and Firbank Indeed, I suggest that a dialogue between these voices runs throughout the novel, such that several scenes can be interpreted contrastingly in terms of opposing Wildean, Forsterian and Firbankian influences Also, the novel invokes a critical exploration of these writers’ politics both in terms of queer identity, class-relations and colonialism In the end, however, I suggest that it is desire that remains prevalent, reaffirming Firbank’s innuendo-laden and impressionistic approach to writing

On Human Nature

Abstract: View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how "The Insect Societies" led him to write "Sociobiology," and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior.

Regarding the Pain of Others

Abstract: Continuous casting process for the production of hollow ingot using an improved direct chill casting equipment having a molding system comprising a hollow mold and a movable platform, wherein at least one core and a pipe for introducing outer air are provided, said core being made from a refractory material unwettable with a molten metal and having a convergent taper at the side and an air runner for introducing outer air, which is packed with an air-permeable material, at the bottom, and said pipe for introducing outer air extending upwards from the air runner and passing through the core. The continuous casting process comprises continuously pouring a molten metal into a space surrounded with the hollow mold and the core of the above equipment; cooling the molten metal only at the side wall of the hollow mold without cooling at the side of the core; thereby solidifying the molten metal to form an ingot having a hollow, wherein the interface of the frozen metal and the liquid metal is present at the position around the core; and continuously lowering the ingot thus formed while introducing spontaneously outer air into the hollow part via the pipe for introducing outer air and the air runner of the core.

The Theological Significance of the Relations of Freedom and Time in the Sciences and Humanities: An Evaluation of the Contributions of David Bohm and Pauli Pylkko

Abstract: THE THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RELATIONS OF FREEDOM AND TIME IN THE SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES: AN EVALUATION OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DAVID BOHM AND PAULI PYLKKÖ by Michael F. Younker Adviser: Martin Hanna ABSTRACT OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHOF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH

Trauma and the Memory of Politics

Abstract: (2004). Trauma and the Memory of Politics. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 119-119.