Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and CommunicationBeyond the Word provides as implicit critique of postmodernism, redefining it as a further, radical stage of modernism. Theall argues that Joyce anticipated many of the insights of semiotics, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. Moreover, Joyce and other modern artists differed from their predecessors in exhibiting a greater sense of their place within a dynamic, multifaceted field of communication. Thus, long before the emergence of postmodernism, these radical modernists posed an implicit challenge to the traditional notion of art as a privileged sphere. Beyond the Word situates artistic expression within a broad ecology of communication alongside genres such as comics, games, ads, videos, and slogans of spontaneous protest. Within this context, Theall reconsiders the contributions of Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Gregory Bateson, and Kenneth Burke to our contemporary understanding of communication, and looks at artists as disparate as Dusan Makavejev, Stanley Kubrick, Alexander Pope, Rabelais, William Gibson, Gene Roddenberry, and Wyndham Lewis. |
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... Wyndham Lewis , who shared Joyce's view of the author as engineer , articulated one of the strongest defences of satire , laughter , and the comic . ' The root of the Comic is to be sought in the sensations resulting from the ...
... Wyndham Lewis , who shared Joyce's view of the author as engineer , articulated one of the strongest defences of satire , laughter , and the comic . ' The root of the Comic is to be sought in the sensations resulting from the ...
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... Wyndham Lewis , who predict that the Bergsonian celebration of mechanism and flux can only lead to disaster ( this position , which he later abandoned , seemed to attract McLuhan when he wrote The Mechanical Bride ) ; second , by those ...
... Wyndham Lewis , who predict that the Bergsonian celebration of mechanism and flux can only lead to disaster ( this position , which he later abandoned , seemed to attract McLuhan when he wrote The Mechanical Bride ) ; second , by those ...
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... Wyndham Lewis , which further suggests that he has slaughtered the élan vitale through his obsessive critique of temporality in works such as Time and Western Man . In this publicist - style attack on the contemporary fascination with ...
... Wyndham Lewis , which further suggests that he has slaughtered the élan vitale through his obsessive critique of temporality in works such as Time and Western Man . In this publicist - style attack on the contemporary fascination with ...
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Synaesthesia | 21 |
Gesture the Body | 39 |
Modernity and Poetics | 56 |
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