Soft Machine - Cybernetic Fiction

Informationen zum Autor David Porush Klappentext This title, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultural and scientific context. The author shows how the concepts of cybernetics and artificial intelligence have become the source for images and techniques in our most highly sophisticated literature. Zusammenfassung This title, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultural and scientific context. The author shows how the concepts of cybernetics and artificial intelligence have become the source for images and techniques in our most highly sophisticated literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. 1. The Metaphor of the Machine 2. Roussel’s Device for the Perfection of Fiction 3. Cybernetics and Literature 4. Counter-statement 5. Cybernetics and Techno-paranoia: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr and William Burroughs 6. Reading in the Servo-mechanical Loop: The Machinery of Metaphor in Pynchon’s Fictions 7. Author as Artificial Intelligence: John Barth’s Computer-generated Texts 8. Deconstructing the Machine: Beckett’s The Lost Ones 9. The Imp in the Machine: Joseph McElroy’s Plus . Conclusion – In the Black Box: Donald Barthelme’s "The Explanation". Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Porush, Porush David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780815355137
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5513-7
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence; Routledge Library Editions: Artificial Intelligence
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy > Science fiction; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Cybernetics & systems theory, Cybernetics and systems theory