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Reading Matters Narrative in the New Media Ecology

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ISBN-10: 0801484030

ISBN-13: 9780801484032

Edition: 1997

Authors: Joseph Tabbi, Michael Wutz

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List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 11/4/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 2.002
Language: English

Friedrich Solmsen (1904-1989) was Chair of the Department of Classics at Cornell University and Moses Slaughter Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he taught at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His many books include Plato's Theology , Hesiod and Aeschylus , and Aristotle's System of the Physical World: A Comparison with His Predecessors , all published by Cornell in the series Cornell Studies in Classical Philology.Joseph Tabbi is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Modernist Narrating Machines
Magic Media Mountain: Technology and the Umbildungsroman
Archaic Mechanics, Anarchic Meaning: Malcolm Lowry and the Technology of Narrative
Writing Machines: Technology and the Failures of Representation in the Works of Franz Kafka
Materialities of Reading
Strange Attractors in Absalom, Absalom!
Cinema and the Paralysis of Perception: Robbe-Grillet, Condillac, Virilio
Exploring Technographies: Chaos Diagrams and Oulipian Writing as Virtual Signs
Postmodernisms: The Novel in the Era of Media Multiplicity
Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War
Mediality in Vineland and Necromancer
No More Heroes: The Routinization of the Epic in Techno-Thrillers
The Book in Bits: Hypertext and Virtual Narrative
The Literary Canon in the Age of Its Technological Obsolescence
Virtual Textuality
No War Machine
Works Cited
About the Contributors
Index