Enduring Words

by Wutz, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780817316709
• ISBN10: 0817316701
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-15
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

Winner of the 2010 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form, sponsored by the Media Ecology Association. An interdisciplinary study of the condition of narrative fiction in the age of its supposed obsolescence.

Author Biography

Michael Wutz is coeditor of Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology and co–translator of Friedrich Kittler's Gramophone, Film, Typewriter.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Mediating Narrative	p. 1
Unusual Suspects, Unusual Subjects	p. 6
Narrative Niches in a Postprint World	p. 20
Frank Norris and the Modern Media Ecology	p. 28
Zoning the District: Photography, "Chromoliterature," and Literary Naturalism	p. 29
Relegitimizing Print: Cinema, the Body, and the Big Stink	p. 37
Agency and Angst: Mangled Hands and Machined Writing	p. 46
The Pit: Locating Modernism's Other	p. 55
Blending the Wheat with the Chaff	p. 56
Art and Dandies in the Cornbelt	p. 62
Of Cablegrams and First Editions, or Short Circuits of the Wired Mind	p. 74
Archaic Mechanics, Anarchic Meaning: Malcolm Lowry and the Technology of Narrative	p. 85
The Engineer, the Hand, and the Machine	p. 87
Narrative Technology: The Myth and the Machine	p. 98
The Narrative Engine as Difference Engine	p. 103
License to Shoot (and Live): Malcolm Lowry and the Captivity of Cinema	p. 107
Inside "the Cabinet of Dr. Caliglowry"	p. 109
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles: The Cinematic Real in Tender Is the Night	p. 115
Incarceration and Imaginary Liberation in October Ferry to Gabriola	p. 123
Literary Narrative and Information Culture: Garbage, Waste, and Residue in the Work of E. L. Doctorow	p. 133
The Stuff Novels Are Made On, or the Artist in Stitches	p. 134
Literary Recycling, Postmodernism, and the Novel Nomad	p. 141
Half-Life, Shelf-Life, and Literary Fallout, or Waste Making Noise	p. 151
The Waterworks: Knowledge and Cognition in the Early Age of Data Storage	p. 156
Stars at War, or Data in Gotham	p. 157
Brains, Waves, and Recording Machines	p. 164
Modularity, Information, Narrative Knowledge	p. 173
By Way of Conclusion: City of God, Galatea 2.2, and the Case of No Body in Vain	p. 181
Cognition in Circuit City, or City of Circuits	p. 181
Language and (Narrative) Cognition in Galatea 2.2	p. 189
Posthuman Embodiment, Writing, and Print	p. 196
Notes	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 247
Index	p. 271
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