Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution 2019937195, 9780691192925, 0691192928

Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution 9780691194219

This book argues that debates over the fate of literature in the present digital age are powerfully conditioned by the i

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Aesthetics and Literature 9781472545343, 9780826496119

The Continuum Aesthetics series looks at the aesthetic questions and issues raised by all major art forms. Stimulating,

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Mindful Aesthetics: Literature and the Science of Mind 9781472543707, 9781441102867

In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and cla

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Experimental American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge 9781421433783, 1421433788

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Writings On Literature and Art & Literature and Revolution

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The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics 9781474443371

Shows how philosophers from Nietzsche to Deleuze have used the figure of the desert to theorise space and place Uses the

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Staging Revolution: Artistry and Aesthetics in Model Beijing Opera during the Cultural Revolution 9888455818, 9789888455812

Staging Revolution refutes the deep-rooted notion that art overtly in the service of politics is by definition devoid of

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Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa 0889369038, 9780889369030, 9781552502822

Information is universally acknowledged to be a lynchpin of sustainable and equitable development. In Africa, however, a

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Cybernetic Aesthetics: Modernist Networks of Information and Data 1009387480, 9781009387484

Cybernetic Aesthetics draws from cybernetics theory and terminology to interpret the communication structures and readin

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Egypt 1919: The Revolution in Literature and Film 9781474458382

Traces the portrayals of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution in literary and cinematic narratives Re-examines the 1919 Egyptian

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