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Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative ideal machine. The collection breaks new ground archaeologically, unearthing representations in literature and film of a whole range of decisive technologies from the stereopticon through census-and slot-machines to the stock ticker, and from the Telex to the manipulation of genetic code and the screens which increasingly mediate our access to the world and to each other. It also contributes significantly to critical and cultural theory by investigating key concepts which articulate the relation between writing and technology: number, measure, encoding, encryption, the archive, the interface. Technography is not just a modern matter, a feature of texts that happen to arise in a world full of machinery and pay attention to that machinery in various ways. But the mediation of other machines has beyond doubt assisted literature to imagine and start to become the ideal machine it is always aspiring to be. Contributors: Ruth Abbott, John Attridge, Kasia Boddy, Mark Byron, Beci Carver, Steven Connor, Esther Leslie, Robbie Moore, Julian Murphet, James Purdon, Sean Pryor, Paul Sheehan, Kristen Treen.

Literature & literary studies --- literature --- encoding --- technology --- number --- the archive --- the interface --- technology in modern literature --- encryption --- measure --- modern literature --- Stereopticon

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Alors que la littérature contemporaine occupe aujourd'hui une place significative dans la recherche et l’enseignement universitaires, il importe de s'interroger sur les effets et les enjeux d’une telle rencontre. Que fait la réception universitaire à la littérature en train de s'écrire ? Que change pour les études littéraires l’analyse sur le vif ? Les études et entretiens réunis dans ce volume dressent un état des lieux de la présence de la littérature contemporaine à l'université en France et au Québec. Ils réfléchissent sur les usages de la notion de « contemporain », les difficultés inhérentes à son emploi et les outils critiques susceptibles d'en favoriser la saisie. L’ouvrage invite ainsi à penser les processus de légitimation et de vieillissement littéraires, tout en donnant à voir une institution universitaire en pleine mutation qui s'interroge sur sa mission, entre patrimonialisation et exploration, médiation et création, ou encore entre éducation culturelle et formation professionnelle.

Literature, Modern --- French literature --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Research. --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- XXe-XXIe siècle --- université --- édition

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Ci sono miti culturali che consentono di riflettere sulla modernità a partire dalle sue radici, permettendo di indagarne gli sviluppi e le polarità fondamentali: tra questi, il mito della trasparenza che, nato in ambito architettonico con l’erezione del Crystal Palace di Londra nel 1851, da tempo non riguarda più soltanto la creazione di spazi caratterizzati da una totale reversibilità ottica di interno ed esterno, ma è ormai divenuto un concetto chiave del dibattito politico e sociale di tutto l’Occidente. Con un taglio agile ma teoricamente agguerrito e un linguaggio che unisce rigore e scorrevolezza, Riccardo Donati affronta qui le tappe evolutive di tale fenomeno, seguendone la progressiva trasformazione da sogno a incubo attraverso lo studio di quelle discipline che da sempre hanno il compito di forgiare e diffondere i miti: la letteratura e le arti della visione. Da Thackeray a Dumas, da Dostoevskij a Ruskin, passando per il Novecento modernista di Tzara, Breton, Scheerbart, Benjamin, Joyce, Palazzeschi, Bontempelli, Duchamp, Ejzenštejn, Zamjatin, fino ad autori del Dopoguerra e della contemporaneità (tra gli altri, Nabokov, Calvino, Rodari, Ballard, Romero), il presente saggio mostra come muovendosi costantemente tra i territori dell’immaginario e delle concrete pratiche costruttive, fuori e dentro il perimetro della storia (realmente vissuta o soltanto ipotizzata), intellettuali e artisti di tutto il mondo abbiano attribuito alle costruzioni diafane valori di segno opposto. Di volta in volta palazzi di vetro, case di cristallo, vetrine commerciali e teche trasparenti sono serviti a veicolare utopie libertarie e incubi concentrazionari, previsioni di un luminoso orizzonte egualitario e oscuri scenari di omologazione generalizzata, approdando infine, in questi ultimi anni, a vere e proprie visioni apocalittiche circa il destino della collettività.

Transparency in literature --- Transparency in architecture --- Literature, Modern --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Modern literature --- Transparent architecture --- Arts, Modern --- Architecture --- letteratura --- mito --- critica sociale --- architettura --- arte --- filosofia

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Figures of scientists in contemporary literatures and cultures. In a fragment published on 10 December 1810 in his "Berliner Abendblätter", Heinrich von Kleist argued that "men could be divided into two categories: those who understand metaphors and those who understand each other. of formulas ". Two centuries later, this volume borrows the Kleist couple "formula and metaphor" to investigate the fate of the scientist as a character in the literatures and cultures of a contemporary age understood in the widest possible sense.

Scientists in literature --- Science in literature --- Literature and science --- Literature, Modern --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History --- History and criticism --- contemporaneità --- Letteratura --- critica letteraria

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"Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. This volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns. Featuring contributions by an international group of scholars from a number of disciplines, the volume offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary literature from around the world. Analysing a range of significant authors and works, not usually brought together in one place, the book introduces readers to some less-familiar fiction, while demonstrating the central place that classical literature can claim in the global literary curriculum of the third millennium. The modern fiction covered is as varied as the acclaimed North American television series The Wire, contemporary Arab fiction, the Japanese novels of Haruki Murakami and the works of New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, Witi Ihimaera. This book explores the diverse ways that ancient Greek myth has been used in fiction internationally since 1989. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. Yet their engagement with it has been by no means homogeneous, and this volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns. While Greek myth and literature were key constituents in nineteenth-century realist and early twentieth-century modernist fiction, they faded in significance mid-century, at a time when V.S. Pritchett warned that the novel as a form would be inadequate to the cultural 'processing' of recent atrocities. However, the creative energies released by the end of the Cold War, the rise of the postcolonial novel, and the terrible recent conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa, which the collapse of the Soviet Union helped to engender, contributed to a remarkable renaissance of significant fiction which engaged once more with the Greeks. By drawing out this dimension, the volume challenges the conventional categorisation of works of fiction according to national tradition, even while the geographical range of the book includes works by Brazilian, French, German, Japanese, Indian, North American, Maori, African, Russian, Greek, Irish, and Arabic writers."--Bloomsbury Publishing Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold War. This volume examines the varied ways that writers from around the world have turned to classical antiquity to articulate their own contemporary concerns. Featuring contributions by an international group of scholars from a number of disciplines, the volume offers a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to contemporary literature from around the world. Analysing a range of significant authors and works, not usually brought together in one place, the book introduces readers to some less-familiar fiction, while demonstrating the central place that classical literature can claim in the global literary curriculum of the third millennium. The modern fiction covered is as varied as the acclaimed North American television series The Wire, contemporary Arab fiction, the Japanese novels of Haruki Murakami and the works of New Zealand's foremost Maori writer, Witi Ihimaera

Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Classical influences. --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Literature --- Mythology, Classical, in literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- ספרות מודרנית --- الأدب، الحديث --- השפעות קלסיות --- Classics --- Literary Studies --- Ancient Greek Myth --- Classical Literature --- Fiction