
Reading Matters
Narrative in the New Media Ecology
Cornell University Press
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Published on 31. May 2018
328 pages
978-1-5017-1765-9 (ISBN)
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The convergence of twentieth-century narrative and technology is one of the most important developments in current literary study. Roughly a decade after the founding of the Society for Literature and Science, and after the appearance of such influential books as Kathleen Woodward's Culture of Information and William Paulson's Noise of Culture, Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz have edited a landmark volume that seeks to summarize this still-emerging field. Through the essays and the wide-ranging overview provided by the editors' introduction, Reading Matters shows how these theoretical concerns can contribute to the practical study of narrative, and it helps to make the field far more accessible to students and other serious readers of fiction.The twelve original essays, published here for the first time, are the work of distinguished scholar-critics on both sides of the Atlantic. They cover the range of contemporary literature, from the canonical novels of high modernism and postmodernism through subjects only recently put on the academic agenda, such as cyberpunk and hypertext fiction.In an age that has proclaimed the death of the novel many times over, the editors and contributors argue persuasively for the continued vitality of literary narrative. By responding in ingenious ways to the capabilities of other media, they assert, the novel has enlarged and redefined its territory of representation and its range of techniques and play, while maintaining its viability in the new media assemblage.
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English
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NY
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College/higher education
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978-1-5017-1765-9 (9781501717659)
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Joseph Tabbi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is editor of the Electronic Book Review.
Joseph Tabbi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is editor of the Electronic Book Review.
Content
- Cover
- 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
- 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
- A
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- F
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