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Reading Matters : Narrative in the New Media Ecology / ed. by Joseph Tabbi, Michael Wutz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: 1997Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) : 10 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9781501717659
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.923
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Modernist Narrating Machines -- 1. Magic Media Mountain: Technology And The Umbildungsroman -- 2. Archaic Mechanics, Anarchic Meaning: Malcolm Lowry And The Technology Of Narrative -- 3. Writing Machines: Technology And The Failures Of Representation In The Works Of Franz Kafka -- Part II: Materialities Of Reading -- 4. Strange Attractors In Absalom, Absalom! -- 5. Cinema And The Paralysis Of Perception: Robbe-Grillet, Condillac, Virilio -- 6. Exploring Technographies: Chaos Diagrams And Oulipian Writing As Virtual Signs -- Part III: Postmodernisms: The Novel In The Era Of Media Multiplicity -- 7. Media And Drugs In Pynchon's Second World War: Translated From The German By Michael Wutz And Geoffrey Winthrop-Young -- 8. Mediality In Vineland And Neuromancer -- 9. No More Heroes: The Routinization Of The Epic In Techno-Thrillers -- Part IV: The Book In Bits: Hypertext And Virtual Narrative -- 10. The Literary Canon In The Age Of Its Technological Obsolescence -- 11. Virtual Textuality -- 12. No War Machine -- Works Cited -- About The Contributors -- Index
Summary: The convergence of twentieth-century narrative and technology is one of the most important developments in current literary study. A decade after the founding of the Society for Literature and Science and the appearance of such influential books as Kathleen Woodward's Culture of Information and William Paulson's The Noise of Culture, Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz have edited a landmark volume to summarize this still-emerging field. Twelve original essays and the editors' introductory overview show how these theoretical concerns can contribute to the practical study of narrative.Reading Matters covers the range of contemporary literature, from the canonical novels of high modernism and postmodernism through subjects new to the academic agenda, such as cyberpunk and hypertext fiction. In an age that has proclaimed the death of the novel many times over, the 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Modernist Narrating Machines -- 1. Magic Media Mountain: Technology And The Umbildungsroman -- 2. Archaic Mechanics, Anarchic Meaning: Malcolm Lowry And The Technology Of Narrative -- 3. Writing Machines: Technology And The Failures Of Representation In The Works Of Franz Kafka -- Part II: Materialities Of Reading -- 4. Strange Attractors In Absalom, Absalom! -- 5. Cinema And The Paralysis Of Perception: Robbe-Grillet, Condillac, Virilio -- 6. Exploring Technographies: Chaos Diagrams And Oulipian Writing As Virtual Signs -- Part III: Postmodernisms: The Novel In The Era Of Media Multiplicity -- 7. Media And Drugs In Pynchon's Second World War: Translated From The German By Michael Wutz And Geoffrey Winthrop-Young -- 8. Mediality In Vineland And Neuromancer -- 9. No More Heroes: The Routinization Of The Epic In Techno-Thrillers -- Part IV: The Book In Bits: Hypertext And Virtual Narrative -- 10. The Literary Canon In The Age Of Its Technological Obsolescence -- 11. Virtual Textuality -- 12. No War Machine -- Works Cited -- About The Contributors -- Index

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The convergence of twentieth-century narrative and technology is one of the most important developments in current literary study. A decade after the founding of the Society for Literature and Science and the appearance of such influential books as Kathleen Woodward's Culture of Information and William Paulson's The Noise of Culture, Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz have edited a landmark volume to summarize this still-emerging field. Twelve original essays and the editors' introductory overview show how these theoretical concerns can contribute to the practical study of narrative.Reading Matters covers the range of contemporary literature, from the canonical novels of high modernism and postmodernism through subjects new to the academic agenda, such as cyberpunk and hypertext fiction. In an age that has proclaimed the death of the novel many times over, the 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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