ISBN:
0472120689
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0472900161
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0472072382
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0472052381
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9780472072385
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9780472900169
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9780472052387
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9780472120680
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 265 pages)
Series Statement:
Digital culture books
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Shackelford, Laura Tactics of the human
Keywords:
American fiction History and criticism
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Literature and technology
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Human body and technology in literature
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Hypertext fiction History and criticism
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Literature and the Internet
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Experimental fiction, American History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; General
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American fiction
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Experimental fiction, American
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Human body and technology in literature
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Hypertext fiction
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Literature and technology
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Literature and the Internet
;
Neue Medien
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Internetliteratur
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Experimentelle Literatur
;
Technologie
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United States
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USA
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
Abstract:
"Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction examines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction. These literary experiments with early digital cultures from the 1990s comparatively retrace and speculate on the digital's transformative influence on prior understandings of the human, of social lives, and of individuals' relations to material lifeworlds, exploring the consequences of the apparent plasticity of the boundaries of the human, particularly for women, subaltern subjects, and others already considered liminally human. As these texts query the digital technics entering into textual practices, subjectivity, spatial practices and social networks, lived space, nation, and economic circulation, they reconceive their own literary print narrative methods and material modes of circulation in order to elaborate on unnoticed potentialities and limits of digital technics, providing a crucial means to reorient digital cultures of the present"--
Abstract:
Literary turns at the scene of digital writing -- Tracing the human through media difference -- Realizing the vitality of "dead" spaces -- Counting on affect: engaging micropractices of the U.S. nation -- Novel diagnosis of bioinformatic circulation.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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