The Mechanic Muse

Author : Hugh Kenner
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mechanic Muse written by Hugh Kenner and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Kenner, one of America's most distinguished critics, brings his customary wit and erudition to bear on a particularly provocative theme: the response of literary Modernism to a changing environment wrought by technology. In fascinating examinations of Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and Beckett, Kenner looks at how inventions like the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted. Kenner sheds new light on the works of these authors, while providing, almost incidentally, a wealth of anecdotes and asides that will delight the general reader and literary specialist alike.

Author : John Paul Russo
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264735
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future Without a Past written by John Paul Russo and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature. Examines technology and its impact on education, historical memory, and technological and literary values in criticism and theory, concluding with an analysis of the fiction of Don DeLillo"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Joseph Brooker
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299196042
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyce's Critics written by Joseph Brooker and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Brooker's synthesis lucidly summarizes more than seventy years of Joyce criticism. This is the first broad study of how James Joyce's work was received in the Anglophone world, accessibly written for both academic and lay readers. Brooker shows how the reading of Joyce's work has moved through different critical paradigms, periods, and places, and how Joyce's writing has given generations of readers a way to discuss the major issues of the modern world.

Author : Edward Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496326
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernist Invention written by Edward Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist Invention attends to the parallel histories of media technology and modernist American poetry.

Author : Seb Franklin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262331144
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Control written by Seb Franklin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-09-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of digitality not simply as a technical substrate but also as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity. Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer provided not only tools but also the metaphors through which we now understand the social and economic formation of our world? In Control, Seb Franklin addresses the conditions of knowledge that make the concept of the “information economy” possible while at the same time obscuring its deleterious effects on material social spaces. In so doing, Franklin traces three intertwined threads: the relationships among information, labor, and social management that emerged in the nineteenth century; the mid-twentieth-century diffusion of computational metaphors; and the appearance of informatic principles in certain contemporary socioeconomic and cultural practices. Drawing on critical theory, media theory, and the history of science, Franklin names control as the episteme grounding late capitalism. Beyond any specific device or set of technically mediated practices, digitality functions within this episteme as the logical basis for reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity, as well as for the intensification of older modes of exclusion and dispossession. In tracking the pervasiveness of this logical mode into the present, Franklin locates the cultural traces of control across a diverse body of objects and practices, from cybernetics to economic theory and management styles, and from concepts of language and subjectivity to literary texts, films, and video games.

Author : Sarah Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425216
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T.S Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination written by Sarah Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and novel study of metaphor as the generative principle giving shape and substance to Eliot's poetic imagination.

Author : Laura Rigal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227748
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Manufactory written by Laura Rigal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cultural history of American federalism argues that nation-building cannot be understood apart from the process of industrialization and the making of the working class in the late-eighteenth-century United States. Citing the coincidental rise of federalism and industrialism, Laura Rigal examines the creations and performances of writers, collectors, engineers, inventors, and illustrators who assembled an early national "world of things," at a time when American craftsmen were transformed into wage laborers and production was rationalized, mechanized, and put to new ideological purposes. American federalism emerges here as a culture of self-making, in forms as various as street parades, magazine writing, painting, autobiography, advertisement, natural history collections, and trials and trial transcripts. Chapters center on the craftsmen who celebrated the Constitution by marching in Philadelphia's Grand Federal Procession of 1788; the autobiographical writings of John Fitch, an inventor of the steamboat before Fulton; the exhumation and museum display of the "first American mastodon" by the Peale family of Philadelphia; Joseph Dennie's literary miscellany, the Port Folio; the nine-volume American Ornithology of Alexander Wilson; and finally the autobiography and portrait of Philadelphia locksmith Pat Lyon, who was falsely imprisoned for bank robbery in 1798 but eventually emerged as an icon for the American working man. Rigal demonstrates that federalism is not merely a political movement, or an artifact of language, but a phenomenon of culture: one among many innovations elaborated in the "manufactory" of early American nation-building.

Author : Daniel Matore
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192857215
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Graphics of Verse written by Daniel Matore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is poetry a visual art? Why do the pages of nineteenth-century poetry look so different to those of twentieth-century verse? Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth century. While the visual experiments of European poets have been well documented, the typographical explorations of poets writing in English have been largely neglected. This volume confronts a major unanswered question: why did British and American poets, from the beginning of the twentieth century right up to the present day, choose to experiment with the design and lay-out of the printed page? This book aims to provide the first detailed account of this lineage of literary style, examining the poetry and criticism of figures such as Ezra Pound, Hope Mirrlees, William Carlos Williams, E.E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, David Jones, Denise Levertov, Charles Olson, Frances Motz Boldereff, and J.H. Prynne. It draws on unpublished archival materials to show how poets began to draft, sketch, and compose in new and eccentric ways as they annexed the roles of book designer and printer. Typography, it argues, was instrumental in debates about metre, free verse, and the nature of poetry as poems morphed into scores, slogans, maps, and signs. It investigates how the typography of poetry was animated by musicology, psychophysics, linguistics, politics, ophthalmology, cartography, and advertising.

Author : S.E. Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748675698
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts written by S.E. Gontarski and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection showcasing the diversity of Samuel Beckett's creative output The 35 original chapters in this Companion capture the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for Beckett's work world-wide. As well as considering topics such as Beckett and science, historiography, geocriticism and philosophy, the volume focuses on the post-centenary impetus within Beckett studies, emphasising a return to primary sources amid letters, drafts, and other documents. Major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabate, and Mark Nixon, as well as emerging researchers, present the latest critical thinking in 9 key areas: Art & Aesthetics; The Body; Fiction; Film, Radio & Television; Global Beckett; Language / Writing; Philosophy; Reading; and Theatre & Performance. Edited by eminent Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski, the Companion draws on the most vital, ground-breaking research to outline the nature of Beckett studies for the next generation.

Author : S E (Florida State University) Gontarski
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748675701
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts written by S E (Florida State University) Gontarski and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 35 new and original chapters in this Companion capture the continued vitality of Beckett studies in drama, music and the visual arts and establish rich and varied cultural contexts for BeckettOCOs work world-wide. As well as considering topics such as Beckett and science, historiography, geocriticism and philosophy, the volume focuses on the post-centenary impetus within Beckett studies, emphasising a return to primary sources amid letters, drafts, and other documents. Major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabat(r), and Mark Nixon, as well as emerging researchers, present the latest critical thinking in 9 key areas: Art & Aesthetics; Fictions; European Context; Irish Context; Film, Radio & Television; Language/Writing; Philosophies; Theatre & Performance; Global Beckett. Edited by eminent Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski, the Companion draws on the most vital, ground-breaking research to outline the nature of Beckett studies for the next generation."e;