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Informationen zum Autor Mark Goble is associate professor of English at the University of California! Berkeley. Klappentext Considering texts by Henry James! Gertrude Stein! James Weldon Johnson! F. Scott Fitzgerald! Ralph Ellison! Richard Wright! James Agee! and William Carlos Williams! alongside film! painting! music! and popular culture! Mark Goble explores the development of American modernism as it was shaped by its response to technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate. Goble's original readings reinterpret the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century! when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. He follows the assimilation of such "old" media technologies as the telegraph! telephone! and phonograph and their role in inspiring fantasies of connection! which informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology! Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating.The "mediated life" puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceive the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another! and therefore to the world and to their own modernity. Zusammenfassung Mark Goble revisits the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century! when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. Goble shows how the assimilation of such "old" media technologies as the telegraph! telephone! and phonograph inspired fantasies of connection that informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology! Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating. The "mediated life" puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceived the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another! to the world! and to their own modernity. Considering texts by Henry James! Gertrude Stein! James Weldon Johnson! F. Scott Fitzgerald! Ralph Ellison! Richard Wright! James Agee! and William Carlos Williams! alongside film! painting! music! and popular culture! Beautiful Circuits explores American modernism as it was shaped by a response to high technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsIntroduction: "Communications Now Are Love"Part I: Communications1. Pleasure at a Distance in Henry James and Others "The Idea of Connectibility"The Novel of CircumlocutionFalling in Love with MediaWhen a "C" Loves an "N"Mrs. Newsome's CablesThe Intensity of IntimationMaster! Dictator! Messenger Boy2. Love and Noise When Gertrude Stein Checks in to Grand HotelThe World of Cameo AppearancesCelebrity from the Inside OutEcstasies of CommunicationThe Static of SexGertrude Stein SuperstarPart II: Records3. Soundtracks: Modernism! Fidelity! Race "Say It with Music"The Racial ApparatusThe HumanolaThe Autobiography of an Ex-PhonographF. Scott Fitzgerald! Wired for SoundRace Records4. The New Permanent Record On Creating a Disposable PastArchival AestheticsHistory and Hygiene"The most inevitably inaccurate of all mediums of record and communication"After the ColonRendered Material: The Index of American DesignTechnical DifficultiesEpilogue: Looking Back at MediumsNotes Index ...
