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024 7 _a10.7312/tayl16040
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780231531641
035 _a(DE-B1597)459380
035 _a(OCoLC)828303090
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050 0 0 _aPS228.T42
_bT39 2013
050 4 _aPS3557.A28
_bT39 2015
072 7 _aLIT004020
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082 0 4 _a810.9356
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aTaylor, Mark C.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRewiring the Real :
_bIn Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo /
_cMark C. Taylor.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (344 p.) :
_b‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›21.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aReligion, Culture, and Public Life ;
_v12
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Illustrations --
_tneχus --
_t1. Counterfeiting Counterfeit Religion --
_t2. Mosaics: Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark --
_t3. Figuring Nothing: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves --
_t4. "Holy Shit!": Don DeLillo, Underworld --
_t5. Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Two Styles of the Philosophy of Religion --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aDigital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman.William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y21st century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aSpirituality in literature.
650 0 _aTechnological innovations
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aTechnology in literature.
650 0 _aTechnology
_xReligious aspects.
650 0 _aTheology in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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700 1 _aDanielewski, Mark
_eautore
700 1 _aGaddis, William
_eautore
700 1 _aPowers, Richard
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/tayl16040
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231531641
856 4 2 _3Cover
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