Reading Matters : : Narrative in the New Media Ecology / / ed. by Joseph Tabbi, Michael Wutz.
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...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
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Table of 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