TY - BOOK ID - 68074913 TI - Beautiful circuits PY - 2010 SN - 9780231146708 9780231518406 0231518404 0231146701 1280657294 9786613634221 9781280657290 6613634220 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Interpersonal communication KW - Mass media and culture KW - Mass media and literature KW - Social interaction KW - History and criticism. KW - Technological innovations KW - Social aspects KW - Human interaction KW - Interaction, Social KW - Symbolic interaction KW - Exchange theory (Sociology) KW - Psychology KW - Social psychology KW - Communication KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Literature and mass media KW - Literature KW - massemedia KW - amerikansk litteratur KW - kommunikasjon KW - teknologi KW - innovasjon KW - sosiale aspekter KW - media KW - massemedier KW - USA KW - Forente stater UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68074913 AB - Considering 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. ER -