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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cybernetic Thinking and Modernist Literature -- Proliferating Textuality: Modernism's Multivalent Data-Networks -- Rethinking Cybernetics' Historical Scope and Disciplinary Reach -- Modernist Literature and the ''Cybernetic Fold'' -- Techno-Modernism: Critical Trends, New Cybernetic Directions -- The Modernist Aesthetics of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics -- Cybernetic Aesthetics: Orientation and Overview |
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Chapter 1 Feedback Loops and Learning from the Past: Ezra Pound's Poetics of Transmission -- Pound's Poetics of Transformation -- Cantos Criticism: Evolving Scholarly Trends, New Analytical Contexts -- The Feedback Loop: Idealized Poundian Transmission -- Circulation and Dialogue versus Blockage and Obfuscation -- Becoming Cybernetic Machines, Reading the Chinese History Cantos -- Defying Data: Pound's Aesthetic Cybernetics -- Chapter 2 The Cybernetic Information Dialectic: Patterns, Randomness, and Newsreel in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. -- ''Outa Luck'' in America |
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Not-Quite-Naturalism: A Starting Point for Dos-Passos-ian Cybernetics -- Cybernetics' Competing Theories of Information, Newsreel's Random Patterns -- Dos Passos's Literary ''Newsreels'': A Cybernetic Cross-Media Analogy -- Beyond the Newsreels: Random Patterns across Dos Passos's Camera-Eye and Characters -- Conclusions: History, Fiction, and the Cybernetic Interpretive Impulse -- Chapter 3 Black Box Subjectivity: Associative Language, Affect, and Radio Blindness in Virginia Woolf's The Waves -- Black-Boxes: An Anecdotal Opening -- Complex Black Boxes: Tomkins, Affect, and Contingency |
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Catching Modern Character: Woolf's Black-Box Literary Subjects -- Black-Box Radio Aesthetics: Woolf, Blindness, and the BBC -- Words as Black Boxes: Woolf's Wavy Associations -- Virginia Woolf and Modernist Media Ecology -- Chapter 4 Cultural Composition, Insistent Spirals, and Definition by Contrast: Gertrude Stein as Second-Order Cybernetic Anthropologist -- Aerial Perspectives and Altered Perceptions -- Modernism, Anthropology, Second-Order Cybernetics -- Pursuing the ''Patterns of Life'': Culture as ''Composition'' -- Composing America, Defamiliarizing the Quotidian |
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Repetition, Comparison, Contrast: Second-Order Cybernetic Pedagogy -- Reframing Repetition: Emphasis, Insistence, Spirals, Möbius Strips -- Setting Experiences Side-by-Side: Definition by Contrast -- Analogy, Large-Scale Data Sets, and Induction: Repetition across Contexts -- Second-Order Cybernetics: Urgent Pedagogy for the Modern World -- Coda: Retrospective and Prospective Readings of Cybernetic Aesthetics -- Looking Backward: Pre-Twentieth-Century Cybernetic Thinking -- Looking Forward: Modernist Cybernetics in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book shows that modernist literature creatively negotiated the same issues of data processing that cybernetics technologies would later tackle |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Cybernetics in literature.
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Communication in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature -- Aesthetics.
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Communication in literature
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Cybernetics in literature
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Literature -- Aesthetics
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Literature, Modern
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009387456 |
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9781009387453 |
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