Intersections Pa

by Burn,Stephen J.

• ISBN13: 9781564785084
• ISBN10: 1564785084
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-07-17
• Publisher: JOHN MUIR

Author Biography

Stephen J. Burn is the author of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (2003). He is an Associate Professor at Northern Michigan University. Peter Dempsey is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sunderland, UK. He has published on contemporary American and Irish literature.

Table of Contents

The Early Novels (1985-1993)
August Sander and Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance	p. 43
Stepping into History: Prisoner's Dilemma	p. 52
Just behind the Billboard: The Instability of Prisoners Dilemma	p. 60
Thirty Two Short Paragraphs About The Gold Bug Variations	p. 75
The Rhetoric of the Genetic Post Card: Writing and Reading in The Gold Bug Variations	p. 90
Richard Powers's Ghosts	p. 105
Passionate Pathography: Narrative as Pharmakon in Operation Wandering Soul	p. 117
The Later Novels (1995-2006)
The Sufficiency of Code: Galatea 2.2 and the Necessity of Embodiment	p. 137
Astride the Two Cultures: A Letter to Richard Powers, Updated	p. 151
The Business of Gain	p. 162
Powers World: Refuge and Reentry in Plowing the Dark	p. 187
Little Knots, Tied in the Clothing of Time: The Time of Our Singing as a Dual-Time Narrative	p. 198
To Find the Soul, it Is Necessary to Lose it: Neuroscience, Disability, and the Epigraph to The Echo Maker	p. 215
Afterthoughts on The Echo Maker	p. 219
The Story of the Self: The Echo Maker and Neurological Realism	p. 230
Powers in Perspective
Powers of the Facsimile: A Turing Test on Science and Literature	p. 263
Narrating Technology	p. 292
Making the Rounds	p. 305
Bibliography	p. 313
Contributors	p. 324
Index	p. 328
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