LEADER 03927nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910814176303321 005 20230207232659.0 010 $a1-280-65729-4 010 $a9786613634221 010 $a0-231-51840-4 024 7 $a10.7312/gobl14670 035 $a(CKB)2560000000050178 035 $a(EBL)908693 035 $a(OCoLC)826476338 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000482928 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12177249 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000482928 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10527182 035 $a(PQKB)10821463 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908693 035 $a(DE-B1597)458891 035 $a(OCoLC)744775079 035 $a(OCoLC)750192913 035 $a(OCoLC)979753822 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231518406 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908693 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10419481 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL363422 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000050178 100 $a20091221d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeautiful circuits $emodernism and the mediated life /$fMark Goble 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (391 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14670-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: "Communications Now Are Love" -- $tPart One: Communications -- $t1. Pleasure at a Distance in Henry James and Others -- $t2. Love and Noise -- $tPart Two: Records -- $t3. Soundtracks: Modernism, Fidelity, Race -- $t4. The New Permanent Record -- $tEpilogue: Looking Back at Mediums -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aConsidering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Agee, and William Carlos Williams, alongside film, painting, music, and popular culture, Mark Goble explores the development of American modernism as it was shaped by its response to technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate.Goble's original readings reinterpret the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century, when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. He follows the assimilation of such "old" media technologies as the telegraph, telephone, and phonograph and their role in inspiring fantasies of connection, which informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology, Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating. The "mediated life" puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceive the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another, and therefore to the world and to their own modernity. 606 $aMass media and literature$zUnited States 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMass media and culture$zUnited States 606 $aInterpersonal communication$xTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aSocial interaction$xTechnological innovations$zUnited States 615 0$aMass media and literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMass media and culture 615 0$aInterpersonal communication$xTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSocial interaction$xTechnological innovations 676 $a302.230973 700 $aGoble$b Mark$01681117 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814176303321 996 $aBeautiful circuits$94050327 997 $aUNINA