Language Machines: Technologies of Literary & Cultural Production
from the 1995 English Institute Conference
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Language Machines
Routledge 1997
Editors:
Jeffrey Masten, Peter Stallybrass & Nancy J. Vickers
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Jonathan Goldberg |
The Female Pen: Writing as a Woman |
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Meredith L. McGill |
The Duplicity of the Pen |
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Jeffrey Masten |
Pressing Subjects: Or, The Secret Lives of Shakespeare’s Compositors |
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Vinay Dharwadker |
Print Culture and Literary Markets in Colonial India |
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Mary Ann Doane |
Screening Time |
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Marsha Kinder |
Screen Wars: Transmedia Appropriations from Einstein to A TV Dante and Carmen Sandiego |
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N. Katherine Hayles |
The Condition of Virtuality |
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Jay Clayton |
The Voice in the Machine: Hazlitt, Hardy, James |
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Peggy Phelan |
Performing Talking Cures: Artaud’s Voice |
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Gregory L. Ulmer |
Kubla Honky Tonk: Voice in Cyber-Pidgin |
Language is now and has always been produced by a variety of machines. But within this proposition lie the histories not only of language, but of the idea of machinery, and of the body as a machine.
In Language Machines, twelve scholars of literature, film, performance, and media explore a range of technologies that have shaped literary and cultural production. Organized around four poles – pens, presses, screens, and voices – the essays pursue, from manuscript to computer and back again, two central claims. First: material forms regulate and structure culture as well as those who are the agents or subjects of culture. And second: new technologies redefine and resituate, rather than replace, earlier technologies.
These provocative and rich essays argue persuasively that language is no disembodied essence (‘In the beginning was the Word’) but instead deeply, resolutely material.
288 pages
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches; 229 x 153 mm