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001 2009053416
003 DLC
005 20091230133646.0
008 091221s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009053416
020 $a9780231146708 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780231518406 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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050 00 $aP96.L5$bG63 2010
082 00 $a302.230973$222
100 1 $aGoble, Mark.
245 10 $aBeautiful circuits :$bmodernism and the mediated life /$cMark Goble.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1008
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: "communications now are love" -- Pleasure at a distance in Henry James and others -- Love and noise -- Soundtracks: modernism, fidelity, race -- The new permanent record -- Epilogue: looking back at mediums.
520 $aMark 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.
650 0 $aMass media and literature$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMass media and culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aInterpersonal communication$xTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSocial interaction$xTechnological innovations$zUnited States.