| Description |
1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-309) and index. |
| Contents |
Magic media mountain : technology and the Umbildungsroman / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young -- Archaic mechanics, anarchic meaning : Malcolm Lowry and the technology of narrative / Michael Wutz -- Writing machines : technology and the failures of representation in the works of Franz Kafka / Klaus Benesch -- Strange attractors in Absalom, Absalom! / Jo Alyson Parker -- Cinema and the paralysis of perception : Robbe-Grillet, Condillac, Virilio / Linda Brigham -- Exploring technographies : chaos diagrams and Oulipian writing as virtual signs / Paul A. Harris -- Media and drugs in Pynchon's Second World War / Friedrich Kittler -- Mediality in Vineland and Neuromancer / John Johnston -- No more heroes : the routinization of the epic in techno-thrillers / Piotr Siemion -- Literary canon in the age of its technological obsolescence / William Paulson -- Virtual textuality / Lynn Wells -- No war machine / Stuart Moulthrop. |
| Summary |
"The twelve original essays, published here for the first time, are the work of distinguished scholar-critics on both sides of the Atlantic. They cover the range of contemporary literature, from the canonical novels of high modernism and postmodernism through subjects only recently put on the academic agenda, such as cyberpunk and hypertext fiction." "In an age that has proclaimed the death of the novel many times over, the editors and contributors argue persuasively for the continued vitality of literary narrative. By responding in ingenious ways to the capabilities of other media, they assert, the novel has enlarged and redefined its territory of representation and its range of techniques and play, while maintaining its viability in the new media assemblage."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Literature and technology.
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Literature and technology. |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Tabbi, Joseph, 1960-
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Wutz, Michael.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reading matters. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997 0801484030 (DLC) 97016216 (OCoLC)36783834 |
| ISBN |
9781501717659 (electronic book) |
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1501717650 (electronic book) |
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0801433655 (alkaline paper) |
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0801484030 |
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9780801484032 |
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0801433665 |
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9780801433665 |
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