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1 online resource. |
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data file |
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Digital culture books
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Digital culture books.
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| Summary |
"Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction. These literary experiments with early digital cultures from the 1990s comparatively retrace and speculate on the digital's transformative influence on prior understandings of the human, of social lives, and of individuals' relations to material lifeworlds, exploring the consequences of the apparent plasticity of the boundaries of the human, particularly for women, subaltern subjects, and others already considered liminally human. As these texts query the digital technics entering into textual practices, subjectivity, spatial practices and social networks, lived space, nation, and economic circulation, they reconceive their own literary print narrative methods and material modes of circulation in order to elaborate on unnoticed potentialities and limits of digital technics, providing a crucial means to reorient digital cultures of the present"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Retracing Digital Cultures through American Fiction; 1. Literary Turns at the Scene of Digital Writing; 2. Tracing the Human through Media Difference; 3. Realizing the Vitality of "Dead" Spaces; 4. Counting on Affect: Engaging Micropractices of the U.S. Nation; 5. Novel Diagnosis of Bioinformatic Circulation; Coda: Unfolding Technics; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
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American fiction -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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Literature and technology -- United States.
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Literature and technology. |
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United States. |
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Human body and technology in literature.
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Human body and technology in literature. |
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Hypertext fiction -- History and criticism.
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Literature and the Internet -- United States.
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Experimental fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Hypertext fiction. |
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Literature and the Internet. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. |
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Experimental fiction, American. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. |
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Neue Medien. |
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Internetliteratur. |
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Experimentelle Literatur. |
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Technologie Motiv. |
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USA. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tactics of the human Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2014] 9780472072385 (hardback : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2014023464 |
| ISBN |
9780472120680 e-book |
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0472120689 |
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9780472052387 paper ; acid-free paper |
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9780472072385 hardback ; acid-free paper |
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9780472052387 |
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9780472900169 (electronic book) |
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0472052381 |
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0472900161 (electronic book) |
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0472072382 |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/dcbooks.12672514.0001.001 |
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