03002nam 2200661Ia 450 991045172270332120200520144314.00-8166-9113-4(CKB)1000000000346917(EBL)310513(OCoLC)476094925(SSID)ssj0000278254(PQKBManifestationID)11210609(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278254(PQKBWorkID)10246162(PQKB)11203476(MiAaPQ)EBC310513(OCoLC)191818094(MdBmJHUP)muse38998(Au-PeEL)EBL310513(CaPaEBR)ebr10151305(CaONFJC)MIL522682(EXLCZ)99100000000034691720000111d2000 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCopying machines[electronic resource] taking notes for the automaton /Catherine LiuMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20001 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3503-X 0-8166-3502-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-218) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Doing It Like a Machine; 2 "What's the Difference?"; 3 The Princess of Clèves Makes a Faux Pas; 4 Getting Ahead with Machines? The Cases of Jacques Vaucanson and Thérèse des Hayes; 5 Don Juan Breaks All His Promises but Manages to Keep One Appointment (with History); 6 De Man on Rousseau: The Reading Machine; 7 Friends: Dangerous Liaisons; Notes; IndexIn readings of texts by Lafayette, Molière, Laclos, and La Bruyère-and in a chapter on the eighteenth-century inventor of automatons, Jacques Vaucanson-Catherine Liu provides a fascinating account of ways in which the automaton and the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien régime France and structure key moments of the canonical literature and criticism of the period."Copying Machines establishes Liu's reputation in all her diverse fields as a leading thinker/writer. Liu invokes the automaton as ironic departure from the machine histories of media-technologization." -Laurence ACriticismEuropeHistory20th centuryDeconstructionLiteraturePhilosophyFrench literature18th centuryHistory and criticismRobots in literatureElectronic books.CriticismHistoryDeconstruction.LiteraturePhilosophy.French literatureHistory and criticism.Robots in literature.801/.95Liu Catherine954575MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451722703321Copying machines2259594UNINA