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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... symbolic acts which unexpectedly tease communication theory out of social praxis through the use of the pun and ... symbolic acts of his world , ' whirled without end ' ( 582.20 ) . The ' decentred ' universe discovered or uncovered by ...
... symbolic acts which unexpectedly tease communication theory out of social praxis through the use of the pun and ... symbolic acts of his world , ' whirled without end ' ( 582.20 ) . The ' decentred ' universe discovered or uncovered by ...
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... symbolic action as a consummatory activity . For dramatic action to provide a critique of symbolic action , various levels or types of action included within dramatic action must be identified : action with respect to aims or purposes ...
... symbolic action as a consummatory activity . For dramatic action to provide a critique of symbolic action , various levels or types of action included within dramatic action must be identified : action with respect to aims or purposes ...
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... symbolic act is created for its own intrinsic delight , paradoxically the par- ticipant discovers ways of ... symbolic action . In doing this , it utilizes the very elements within which symbolic action itself occurs , but by freeing ...
... symbolic act is created for its own intrinsic delight , paradoxically the par- ticipant discovers ways of ... symbolic action . In doing this , it utilizes the very elements within which symbolic action itself occurs , but by freeing ...
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Synaesthesia | 21 |
Gesture the Body | 39 |
Modernity and Poetics | 56 |
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