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Technology and Literature

Technology and Literature

Hammond, Adam

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Critical Concepts

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1108472583
ISBN13: 9781108472586
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 14 2023
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.79
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Whereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that literature is a technology. It shows how literature has been shaped by technological revolutions, and reveals the essential work that literature has done in helping to uncover the consequences of new technologies. Individual chapters focus on how specific literary technologies - the development of writing, the printing press, typewriters, the computer - changed the kinds of stories it was possible to tell, and how one could tell them. They also cover the way that literature has engaged with non-literary technologies - clocks, compasses, trains, telegraphs, cameras, bombs, computer networks - to help its readers to work through the new social configurations and new possibilities for human identity and imagination that they unveil. Human life is inescapably mediated through technology; literature demonstrates this, and thus helps its readers to engage consciously and actively with their technological worlds.

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