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Lena Dominelli and
Hugh Kenner
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
November 1, 1986
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780195041422
ISBN-10
0195041429
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.75 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$17.95
Other format details
university press
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§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot
Amazon.com description: Product Description: One of America's most celebrated critics here brings his customary wit and erudition to bear on a particularly provocative theme: the response of literary Modernism to a changing environment wrought by technology. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Hugh Kenner, observes, technology "tended to engulf people gradually, coercing behavior they were not aware of." The Modernist writers were sensitive to technological change, however, and throughout their works are reflections of this fact. Kenner shows, for example, how Eliot's lines "One thinks of all the hands/That are raising dingy shades/In a thousand furnished rooms" suggest the advent of the alarm clock and, beyond that, what the clocks enabled: "the new world of the commuter, in which a principal event was waking up in the morning under the obligation to get yourself somewhere else, and arrive there on time.
In fascinating examinations of Pound, Joyce, and Beckett, in addition to Eliot, Kenner looks at how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted. Whether discussing Joyce's acute awareness of the nuances of typesetting or Beckett's experiments with a "proto-computer-language," Kenner consistently illuminates in fresh new ways the works of these authors and offers, almost incidentally, a wealth of anecdotes and asides that will delight the general reader and the literary specialist alike.
In fascinating examinations of Pound, Joyce, and Beckett, in addition to Eliot, Kenner looks at how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted. Whether discussing Joyce's acute awareness of the nuances of typesetting or Beckett's experiments with a "proto-computer-language," Kenner consistently illuminates in fresh new ways the works of these authors and offers, almost incidentally, a wealth of anecdotes and asides that will delight the general reader and the literary specialist alike.
Editions
Editions for the work The Mechanic Muse
Hardcover
from Replica Books (April 1, 2001)
9780735103498 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $27.45
About: Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot
About: Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot
The price comparison is for this edition
With Lena Dominelli |
from Oxford Univ Pr (November 1, 1986)
9780195041422 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $17.95
This edition also contains Social Work in a Globalizing World
About: Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot
This edition also contains Social Work in a Globalizing World
About: Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot
Paperback
from Oxford Univ Pr on Demand (April 1, 1988)
9780195054231 | details & prices | 144 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $24.95
Editions for the work Social Work in a Globalizing World
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
With Hugh Kenner |
from Oxford Univ Pr (November 1, 1986); titled "The Mechanic Muse"
9780195041422 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $17.95
This edition also contains The Mechanic Muse
About: Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot
This edition also contains The Mechanic Muse
About: Examines how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted, in readings of works by writers including Pound, Joyce, Beckett, and Eliot
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