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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... visual arts the collage , such as those of Kurt Schwitters , embraced printed material as well as other objects . Newspapers easily found their place in cubist inner landscapes , such as Pablo Picasso's Guernica , since in a way the ...
... visual arts the collage , such as those of Kurt Schwitters , embraced printed material as well as other objects . Newspapers easily found their place in cubist inner landscapes , such as Pablo Picasso's Guernica , since in a way the ...
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... visual design ( a book ' in soandso many counterpoint words ' ) , but it is ' raided ' only by the machinery of decoding for ' What can't be coded can be decorded if an ear aye sieze what no eye ere grieved for . ' This requires seeing ...
... visual design ( a book ' in soandso many counterpoint words ' ) , but it is ' raided ' only by the machinery of decoding for ' What can't be coded can be decorded if an ear aye sieze what no eye ere grieved for . ' This requires seeing ...
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... visual , rhythmical , kinaesthetic , and gestural . While visual memory is distinct from oral memory , both may also be interwoven within the same experience , which may also involve kinaesthetic and gestural memory . Jousse , whose ...
... visual , rhythmical , kinaesthetic , and gestural . While visual memory is distinct from oral memory , both may also be interwoven within the same experience , which may also involve kinaesthetic and gestural memory . Jousse , whose ...
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Synaesthesia | 21 |
Gesture the Body | 39 |
Modernity and Poetics | 56 |
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