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Cognitive Fictions
Engelsk Paperback
Cognitive Fictions
Engelsk Paperback

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The first comprehensive look at the effect of new technologies on contemporary American fiction

Bringing together cognitive science and literary analysis to map a new "media ecology," Cognitive Fictions limns an evolutionary process in which literature must find its place in an artificial environment partly produced and thoroughly mediated by technological means. Joseph Tabbi provides a penetrating account of a developing consciousness emerging from the struggle between print and electronic systems of communication.

Central to Tabbi’s work is the relation between the arrangement of communicating "modules" that cognitive science uses to describe the human mind and the arrangement of visual, verbal, and aural media in our technological culture. He looks at particular literary works by Thomas Pynchon, Richard Powers, David Markson, Lynne Tillman, Paul Auster, and others as both inscriptions of thought consistent with distributed cognitive models, and as self-creations out of the media environment.

The first close reading of contemporary American writing in the light of systems theory and cognitive science, Cognitive Fictions makes needed sense of how the moment-by-moment operations of human thought find narrative form in a world increasingly defined by competing and often incompatible representations.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
216
ISBN-13:
9780816635573
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0816635579
Udg. Dato:
27 jun 2002
Længde:
11mm
Bredde:
150mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
University of Minnesota Press
Oplagsdato:
27 jun 2002
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge