Eavesdropping in the novel from Austen to Proust / / Ann Gaylin [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449747703321
• Autore: Gaylin Ann Elizabeth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-12600-2; 1-280-15972-3; 0-511-12076-1; 0-511-04260-4; 0-511-15791-6; 0-511-32986-5; 0-511-48480-1; 0-511-04582-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 37
• Disciplina: 823/.809353
• Soggetti: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Eavesdropping in literature; Comparative literature - English and French; Comparative literature - French and English; French fiction - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: I'm all ears: Pride and Prejudice, or the story behind the story -- Eavesdropping and the gentle art of Persuasion -- Household words: Balzac's and Dickens's domestic spaces -- The madwoman outside the attic: eavesdropping and narrative agency in The Woman in White -- La double entente: eavesdropping and identity in A la recherche du temps perdu -- Conclusion: covert listeners and secret agents.
• Sommario/riassunto: Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission and reception of information ; among characters, narrators and readers. Gaylin sheds light on the social and psychological effects of the nineteenth-century rise of information technology and accelerated flow of information, as manifested in the anxieties about - and delight in - displays of private life and its secrets. Analysing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust, Gaylin demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution; to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency; to place the debates of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel. This 2003 study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

Ambient commons : attention in the age of embodied information / / Malcolm McCullough

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779402603321
• Autore: McCullough Malcolm
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts, : The MIT Press, [2013]
• ISBN: 0-262-31348-0; 1-299-44320-6; 0-262-31347-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.1/08
• Soggetti: Architectural design - Philosophy; Information commons; Computer-aided design; Human-computer interaction
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Street Level; I Ideas of the Ambient; 1 Ambient; 2 Information; 3 Attention; 4 Embodiment; 5 Fixity; II Toward an Environmental History of Information; 6 Tagging the Commons; 7 Frames and Facades; 8 Architectural Atmospheres; 9 Megacity Resources; 10 Environmental History; 11 Governing the ; Ambient; 12 Peak Distraction; Epilogue: Silent Commons; Notes; Name Index; Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Sensors, processors, and memory are not found only in chic smart phones but also built into everyday objects. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to tune this world out. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed forms persist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. In Ambient Commons, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention though a rediscovery of surroundings. Not all that informs has been written and sent; not all attention involves deliberate thought. The intrinsic structure of space -- the layout of a studio, for example, or a plaza -- becomes part of any mental engagement with it. McCullough describes what he calls the Ambient: an increasing tendency to perceive information superabundance whole, where individual signals matter less and at least some mediation assumes inhabitable form. He explores how the fixed forms of architecture and the city play a cognitive role in the flow of ambient information. As a persistently inhabited world, can the Ambient be understood as a shared cultural resource, to be socially curated, voluntarily limited, and self-governed as if a commons? Ambient Commons invites you to look past current obsessions with smart phones to rethink attention itself, to care for more situated, often inescapable forms of information.