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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Liu, Catherine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
1700-1999
Criticism > Europe > History > 20th century.
Deconstruction.
Literature > Philosophy.
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Robots in literature.
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
Critique > Europe > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Déconstruction.
Littérature française > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Déconstructivisme (Architecture)
Deconstructivist.
deconstruction (theory)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Criticism
Deconstruction
French literature
Literature > Philosophy
Robots in literature
Europe
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Doing it like a machine
  • 2. "What's the difference?"
  • 3. The Princess of Cléves makes a faux pas
  • ch. 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.

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