Copying machines [[electronic resource] ] : taking notes for the automaton / / Catherine Liu

• Autore: Liu Catherine
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 801/.95
• Soggetto topico: Criticism - Europe - History - 20th century; Deconstruction; Literature - Philosophy; French literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Robots in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-218) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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 A
• Titolo autorizzato: Copying machines
• ISBN: 0-8166-9113-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451722703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II