Technology, Literature and Culture

Name: Technology, Literature and Culture
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ISBN: 9780745639543

ISBN-10: 0745639542

ISBN-13: 9780745639543

Edition: 2011

Authors: Alex Goody

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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 formal and thematic literary innovations, the representations of technology in spy fiction and the…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 5/6/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Twentieth-Century Technological Imaginary


Victorian technoculture


Uncanny technology


Victorian Science Fiction


Technology in the twentieth century



Writing Technology: Literature and Theory


Mechanical reproduction


The question concerning technology


The medium is the message


Technology and postmodernism


Desiring machines


Media technologies, theory and the human



Media Technologies and Modern Culture


Modernism and the cinema eye


Talking across distances: radio modernism


Beckett and broadcast media



Cold War Technologies


Electric death


Machine-war and poetry


Total War, information and the spy


Nuclear culture and counterculture


Postmodernism, media and the death of the real



Technological Texts: From Typewriters to Hypermedia


Type-writers and texts


Typing, poetry and spontaneity


Digital writing and hypertext



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


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Index