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"Whereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that literature is a technology. It shows how literature has been shaped by technological revolutions, and reveals the essential work that literature has done in helping to uncover th...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge : |
| Publication Dates: | 2024. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Critical Concepts
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| Summary: |
"Whereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that literature is a technology. It shows how literature has been shaped by technological revolutions, and reveals the essential work that literature has done in helping to uncover the consequences of new technologies. Individual chapters focus on how specific literary technologies - the development of writing, the printing press, typewriters, the computer - changed the kinds of stories it was possible to tell, and how one could tell them. They also cover the way that literature has engaged with non-literary technologies - clocks, compasses, trains, telegraphs, cameras, bombs, computer networks - to help its readers to work through the new social configurations and new possibilities for human identity and imagination that they unveil. Human life is inescapably mediated through technology; literature demonstrates this, and thus helps its readers to engage consciously and actively with their technological worlds."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781108472586 1108472583 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I0-05 |
| Call Number: | I0-05/T255 |
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Origins. Orality and writing / Manuscript / The hand press, 1450-1800 / The mechanical press, 1800-1900 / The typewriter / Literature in the electric age / Digital text / Developments. Prostheses / Clocks / Compasses / Telescopes / Steam engines / Wires / Cameras / Phonographs / Waves and rays / The bomb / Networks / Applications. Distant reading / Visualization / Digital editions / |