Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist...
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Technology, Literature and Culture provides a detailed and accessible exploration of the ways in which literature across the twentieth century has represented the inescapable presence and progress of technology. As this study argues, from the Fordist revolution in manufacturing to computers and the internet, technology has reconfigured our relationship to ourselves, each other, and to the tools and material we use. The book considers such key topics as the legacy of late-nineteenth century technology, the literary engagement with cinema and radio, the place of typewriters and computers in fo
PTLC - Polity Themes in 20th and 21st Century Literature
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COVER; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction: The Twentieth-Century Technological Imaginary; VICTORIAN TECHNOCULTURE; UNCANNY TECHNOLOGY; VICTORIAN SCIENCE FICTION; TECHNOLOGY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; 2: Writing Technology: Literature and Theory; MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION; THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY; THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE; TECHNOLOGY AND POSTMODERNISM; DESIRING MACHINES; MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES, THEORYAND THE HUMAN; 3: Media Technologies and Modern Culture; MODERNISM AND THE CINEMA EYE; TALKING ACROSS DISTANCES: RADIO MODERNISM; BECKETT AND BROADCAST MEDIA
4: Cold War TechnologiesELECTRIC DEATH; MACHINE-WAR AND POETRY; TOTAL WAR, INFORMATION AND THE SPY; NUCLEAR CULTURE AND COUNTERCULTURE; POSTMODERNISM, MEDIA AND THE DEATH OF THE REAL; 5: Technological Texts: From Typewriters to Hypermedia; TYPE-WRITERS AND TEXTS; TYPING, POETRY AND SPONTANEITY; DIGITAL WRITING AND HYPERTEXT; 6: Robots, Cyborgs and the Technological Body; 'I WOULD RATHER BE A CYBORG THAN A GODDESS'; MACHINE-AGE MAN; ROBOTS, AUTOMATION AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN; TECHNOLOGY, IDENTITY AND THE CYBORG SUBJECT; SCREENS, BODIES AND LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY CULTURE; Notes
