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Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 June 2016
... to examine media relations, Punday reads novels as their own form of media theory, or narrative enactments of complex theses on contemporary media interactions. Focusing on readings of novels by authors including Thomas Pynchon, Toni Cade Bambara, Maxine Hong Kingston, and several others, Punday locates...
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Artificial Bloom
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 429–433.
Published: 01 June 2023
... American Poetry ,” in Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry , edited by Dungy Camille , xix – xxxv . Athens : Univ. of Georgia Press . Geoghegan Bernard Dionysius . 2013 . “ After Kittler: On the Cultural Techniques of Recent German Media Theory .” Theory...
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Within, Aside, and Too Much: On Parentheticality across Media
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 689–717.
Published: 01 December 2013
... in and out of disciplinary boundaries and questions about the legacies of critical theory, comedy, sound, sexuality, independent filmmaking, and new media aesthetics. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Adorno Theodor W. 1990 . “ Punctuation Marks .” Translated by Nicholsen...
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The Game Theory of Sex
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 103–131.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Arthur Z. Wang Abstract Calculated sexual games play out across contemporary American popular media, from self-help books and advice columns to dating apps and reality television. This article argues that economic game theory subtends the saturation of popular culture with lay theories of sex...
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Hearing Lost, Hearing Found: George Washington Cable and the Phono-Ethnographic Ear
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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 519–551.
Published: 01 September 2010
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theories, yet they have generally failed to consider the wider network
of “media relations” both within and against which their shared inter-
est in cross-cultural listening took shape.46 Working in the wake of
the alternating sounds thesis, anthropologists and early ethnomusi-
cologists...
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Tapping the Wire: A Telegraphic Discourse
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 269–300.
Published: 01 June 2016
... technosocial landscape(s). Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 media theory telegraphy digital analog Friedrich Kittler In A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers , published in 1849, Henry David Thoreau recounts taking a walk by the commercial railroad lines near the small...
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American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville The Official World
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 889–891.
Published: 01 December 2019
... operates” (246). Seltzer’s key concept is not feeling (or affect) but system (or mass media system). This report on “a self-reporting world” (1) and argument that “a modern world comes to itself by staging its own conditions” (6) engages most intensively with Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory...
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Aesthetics and the Infrastructural Turn in the Digital Humanities
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 627–637.
Published: 01 September 2016
...-formation from the present day to show how the emerging new media studies of the mid-twentieth century staked its claim on technological grounds, thereby establishing the “media” of new media as a purely technological object. Technologies then take on a determining role in media theory to the extent...
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The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho
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American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 113–137.
Published: 01 March 2024
... to study restrictions on pornography. These significant changes in culture found their way into a wealth of media including journalism, films, and novels that processed the seemingly contradictory moral claims underlying these policies: greed is good; sex is bad. This article draws on financial...
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The Visual Art of Invisible Man : Ellison's Portrait of Blackness
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 775–803.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Lena M. Hill Hill examines how art theory and plastic art objects facilitate Ellison's presentation of African American consciousness in Invisible Man . When considered alongside manuscripts of the novel in addition to letters and other archival material, the published text emerges as heavily...
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Thinking Outside the Book Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound What Is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 630–632.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Macaria; and “the
complex provenance” and “unstable condition” of Mary Boykin Chesnut’s
Diary. Rohrbach’s archival research is meticulous and her framing of these
cases in relation to current theories of digital media provocative. One quibble:
she does not link her consideration of how media...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 185–204.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... The momentum is also reflected in a variety of modes and institutional forms of engagement—among them special issues and essay clusters in Critical Inquiry ; Daedalus ; Digital Culture & Society ; e-flux ; Public Books ; Theory, Culture & Society ; and Media, Culture & Society , journals...
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Military Technologies and Human Labor
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American Literature (2023) 95 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 June 2023
... are fusions or hybrids of human labor and technical objects” (10). In many ways Packer and Reeves’s claim seems to follow in part from their disciplinary interest in the media technologies of the US military. To look at war through a media theory lens is to foreground the transmission of footage or decisions...
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Enumerations: Data and Literary Study Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 820–824.
Published: 01 December 2020
... is de rigueur, folded into sped-up product cycles (think Apple iPhones), constant updates to apps (think new features that barely register), and overstated promises of a revolution to come (think disruption as a mantra of Silicon Valley startups). Dinnen builds on media theory by Sarah Kember...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and media theory in a manner that is a model of methodological pluralism. His chapters focus on a range of fascinating case studies: analyzing legal battles arising from the publication of parodies of classic novels (such as Gone with the Wind [1936] and Lolita [1955]), undertaking a comparative study...
View articletitled, American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity The Aesthetics of Middlebrow Fiction: Popular US Novels, Modernism, and Form, 1945–75
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Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions Beautiful Circuits: Modernism and the Mediated Life Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 830–833.
Published: 01 December 2013
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spective generates a series of exhilarating readings of the knowledge work
performed by aesthetic documents within technologized information cir-
cuits. Looking back through the ontology, epistemology, and pragmatics of
contemporary media theories, he sees the late novels of Henry James at
work...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 March 2016
... . Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11 . New York : Palgrave Macmillan . Hansen Mark B. N. 2009 . “Living (with) Technical Time: From Media Surrogacy to Distributed Cognition.” Theory, Culture, and Society 26 , nos. 2–3 : 294 – 315 . doi:10.1177/0263276409103109 . Hayles N...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 615–628.
Published: 01 December 2013
... supplement or replace others. While most of the contributors
situate themselves within American literary studies, they are also in
conversation with media studies, the digital humanities, archive stud-
ies, critical theory, and cultural studies. Issues of technique (markup,
visualization, editing...
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Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media Virtual Modernism: Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 853–855.
Published: 01 December 2015
....” However, once one
accepts this basic premise (and why not a whole host of fascinating episte-
mological insights follow in the realms of media and information theory, nar-
ratology, poststructuralist linguistics, and even climate change. Indeed, this
book alone is enough to make one feel...
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Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia the Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood Neocybernetics and Narrative
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 850–853.
Published: 01 December 2015
...-observations” necessary for “cognition.” However, once one
accepts this basic premise (and why not a whole host of fascinating episte-
mological insights follow in the realms of media and information theory, nar-
ratology, poststructuralist linguistics, and even climate change. Indeed, this
book alone...
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