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Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday

Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the Everyday

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474441491
ISBN13: 9781474441490
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jul 22 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes
Explores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalistsExplores writers' and artists' inventions as well as their texts, and involves them directly in the messy transductions of technology in cultureDraws on previously unknown photos, manuscripts and other evidence that reveals the untold story of Bob and Rose Brown's 'reading machine' - a cross-disciplinary, meta-formational, and transnational project that proposed to transform the everyday act of reading

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