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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... century began . Its full implications are the major focus of James Joyce's writings , for by the eve of the Second ... century . As the twentieth century progresses towards the third millennium , one of the many transformations which has ...
... century began . Its full implications are the major focus of James Joyce's writings , for by the eve of the Second ... century . As the twentieth century progresses towards the third millennium , one of the many transformations which has ...
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... century , Alexander Pope in his Dunciad could celebrate the death of the Word , owing to the impact of the improved printing press and the creation of a large popular audience . The spoken word had been an embodied word resilient with ...
... century , Alexander Pope in his Dunciad could celebrate the death of the Word , owing to the impact of the improved printing press and the creation of a large popular audience . The spoken word had been an embodied word resilient with ...
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... century , such as the one between Spenser and Harvey , were actually discus- sions about the conflicting communication potential of a new technology . Spenser , arguing against Harvey's wish for a standardized orthography , raises the ...
... century , such as the one between Spenser and Harvey , were actually discus- sions about the conflicting communication potential of a new technology . Spenser , arguing against Harvey's wish for a standardized orthography , raises the ...
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Synaesthesia | 21 |
Gesture the Body | 39 |
Modernity and Poetics | 56 |
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