Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America - Softcover

Tichi, Cecelia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807841676 ISBN 13: 9780807841679

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

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Book by Tichi Cecelia

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"A fascinating account of the national obsession with eliminating instability and waste through technology. [Tichi's] account of the emergence of these themes in popular literature is equally engrossing and convincing."--Alexander Nehamas, "New York Times Book Review" "Offers an original way of viewing the machine's impact on so-called modernist writing. By evaluating literature in a cultural context, Cecelia Tichi shows how technology changed both perception and language."--"Winterthur Portfolio" "Asserting the interlock of the arts and technological sciences in our culture, Tichi illuminates new areas of investigation, demonstrating connections and influences where none have before been suspected."--John Seelye, University of Florida Tichi illuminates new areas of investigation, demonstrating connections and influences where none have before been suspected.John Seelye, University of Florida A fascinating account of the national obsession with eliminating instability and waste through technology.Alexander Nehamas, "New York Times Book Review" "Tichi illuminates new areas of investigation, demonstrating connections and influences where none have before been suspected.John Seelye, University of Florida" Offers an original way of viewing the machine's impact on so-called modernist writing."Winterthur Portfolio"

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A major consequence of this technology was its effect on the arts, in particular the literary arts. Three prominent American writers of the time -- Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and William Carlos Williams -- became designer-engineers of the word. Tichi reveals their use of prefabricated, manufactured components in poems and prose. As designers, they enacted in style and structure the new technological values. The writers, according to Tichi, thought of words themselves as objects for assembly into a design.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0807841676
• ISBN 13: 9780807841679
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 330