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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Auteur principal: Liu, Catherine
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780816691135

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