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UNINA9910462839803321 |
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Taylor Mark C. <1945-> |
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Rewiring the real : in conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo / / Mark C. Taylor |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (339 p.) |
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Religion, Culture, and Public Life |
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Technology in literature |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 21st century - History and criticism |
Technological innovations - Religious aspects |
Theology in literature |
Spirituality in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- neχus -- 1. Counterfeiting Counterfeit Religion / Gaddis, William -- 2. Mosaics: Richard Powers, Plowing the Dark / Powers, Richard -- 3. Figuring Nothing: Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves / Danielewski, Mark -- 4. "Holy Shit!": Don DeLillo, Underworld -- 5. Concluding Unscientific Postscript: Two Styles of the Philosophy of Religion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index |
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Digital and electronic technologies that act as extensions of our bodies and minds are changing how we live, think, act, and write. Some welcome these developments as bringing humans closer to unified consciousness and eternal life. Others worry that invasive globalized technologies threaten to destroy the self and the world. Whether feared or desired, these innovations provoke emotions that have long fueled the religious imagination, suggesting the presence of a latent spirituality in an era mistakenly deemed secular and posthuman.William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo are |
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American authors who explore this phenomenon thoroughly in their work. Engaging the works of each in conversation, Mark C. Taylor discusses their sophisticated representations of new media, communications, information, and virtual technologies and their transformative effects on the self and society. He focuses on Gaddis's The Recognitions, Powers's Plowing the Dark, Danielewski's House of Leaves, and DeLillo's Underworld, following the interplay of technology and religion in their narratives and their imagining of the transition from human to posthuman states. Their challenging ideas and inventive styles reveal the fascinating ways religious interests affect emerging technologies and how, in turn, these technologies guide spiritual aspirations. To read these novels from this perspective is to see them and the world anew. |
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UNISA996396671603316 |
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Autore |
Stubbes Phillip |
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A motiue to good workes [[electronic resource] ] : Or rather, to true Christianitie indeede. Wherein by the waie is shewed, how farre wee are behinde, not onely our fore-fathers in good workes, but also many other creatures in the endes of our creation: with the difference betwixt the pretenced [sic] good workes of the Antichristian Papist, and the good workes of the Christian Protestant. By Phillip Stubbes, Gentleman |
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London, : Printed for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater Noster rowe, at the signe of the Talbot, 1593 |
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Signatures: A-O (-A1, blank?). |
Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
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