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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... language ( especially either speech or writing viewed as a privileged form by structuralists and North American deconstructionists ) is challenged by the claims of the broader , yet essentially integrated , system of human communi ...
... language ( especially either speech or writing viewed as a privileged form by structuralists and North American deconstructionists ) is challenged by the claims of the broader , yet essentially integrated , system of human communi ...
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... language games used in Gargantua has an artistic and ideological meaning . This game , the coq - à - l'âne ( from cock to donkey ) , involves a play with language and with sense that anticipates that of Joyce : ' First of all , it is a ...
... language games used in Gargantua has an artistic and ideological meaning . This game , the coq - à - l'âne ( from cock to donkey ) , involves a play with language and with sense that anticipates that of Joyce : ' First of all , it is a ...
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... language of Finnegans Wake with its counterpoint and ' decording ' not because he had to force readers to read his book as a printed text , but because he had to make them become aware that this book also had to be spoken and pronounced ...
... language of Finnegans Wake with its counterpoint and ' decording ' not because he had to force readers to read his book as a printed text , but because he had to make them become aware that this book also had to be spoken and pronounced ...
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Synaesthesia | 21 |
Gesture the Body | 39 |
Modernity and Poetics | 56 |
Copyright | |
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