Copying Machines : Taking Notes for the Automaton /

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In readings of texts by Lafayette, Molire, Laclos, and La Bruyreand in a chapter on the eighteenth-century inventor of automatons, Jacques VaucansonCatherine Liu provides a fascinating account of ways in which the automaton and the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien rgime France a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Liu, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Robots in literature.
Literature > Philosophy.
French literature.
Deconstruction.
Criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Deconstructivist.
Litterature française > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Critique > Europe > Histoire > 20e siecle.
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Criticism > Europe > History > 20th century.
Europe.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Doing it like a machine
  • 2. "What's the difference?"
  • 3. The Princess of Cleves makes a faux pas
  • ch. 4. Getting ahead with machines? : the cases of Jacques Vaucanson and Therese 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.

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