ISBN:
9780231518406
,
0231518404
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiii, 374 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Goble, Mark Beautiful circuits
DDC:
302.230973
Keywords:
Mass media and literature United States
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American literature History and criticism
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20th century
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Mass media and culture United States
;
Interpersonal communication Technological innovations
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Social aspects
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United States
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Social interaction Technological innovations
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United States
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American literature History and criticism 20th century
;
Mass media and culture
;
Interpersonal communication Technological innovations
;
Social aspects
;
Social interaction Technological innovations
;
Mass media and literature
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies
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PERFORMING ARTS ; Film & Video ; History & Criticism
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American literature
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Mass media and culture
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Mass media and literature
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littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) ; modernité ; 20e s. (1ère moitié)
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littérature américaine (Etats-Unis) ; technologie ; 20e s. (1ère moitié)
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Mark Goble revisits the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century, when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. Goble shows how the assimilation of such "old" media technologies as the telegraph, telephone, and phonograph inspired fantasies of connection that informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology, Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating. The "mediated life" puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceived the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another, to the world, and to their own modernity. Considering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Agee, and William Carlos Williams, alongside film, painting, music, and popular culture, Beautiful Circuits explores American modernism as it was shaped by a response to high technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/gobl14670
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