Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication

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Beyond the Word provides as implicit critique of postmodernism, redefining it as a further, radical stage of modernism. Theall argues that Joyce anticipated many of the insights of semiotics, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. Moreover, Joyce and other modern artists differed from their predecessors in exhibiting a greater sense of their place within a dynamic, multifaceted field of communication. Thus, long before the emergence of postmodernism, these radical modernists posed an implicit challenge to the ...
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Beyond the Word provides as implicit critique of postmodernism, redefining it as a further, radical stage of modernism. Theall argues that Joyce anticipated many of the insights of semiotics, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. Moreover, Joyce and other modern artists differed from their predecessors in exhibiting a greater sense of their place within a dynamic, multifaceted field of communication. Thus, long before the emergence of postmodernism, these radical modernists posed an implicit challenge to the traditional notion of art as a privileged sphere. Beyond the Word situates artistic expression within a broad ecology of communication alongside genres such as comics, games, ads, videos, and slogans of spontaneous protest. Within this context, Theall reconsiders the contributions of Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, Gregory Bateson, and Kenneth Burke to our contemporary understanding of communication, and looks at artists as disparate as Dusan Makavejev, Stanley Kubrick, Alexander Pope, Rabelais, William Gibson, Gene Roddenberry, and Wyndham Lewis.
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Theall (emeritus, Trent U., Canada) centers his discussion around the theoretical implications of the work of James Joyce who he posits as a "poetical engineer" whose works show how poetry and art have always provided society with a means of communication about social and technological change. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780802006301
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publication date: 12/1/1995
  • Series: Theory Culture Series
  • Pages: 670

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
A Note on Acronyms and Reference Style
1 The Poetic Body in the New Culture of Time and Space: Communication, Art, and Technology in the Twentieth Century 3
2 The Micro as the Medium and the Message: Synaesthesia, the Harmonization of the Senses, and the Mechanics of Art 21
3 From Sense to Nonsense: Gesture, the Body, and Communication 39
4 The Joyce Era: Modernity and Poetics 56
5 The Book, the Press, Eisenstein, and Joyce: Changing Relations in Culture, Technology, and Communication 74
6 Beyond Media 91
7 The Comic, Wit, and Laughter: Dramatic Engineering of Communication 109
8 A Dramatic Theory of Communication 126
9 Communication and Comedy: Negativity, Satire, and Secular Communion 142
10 Tactility and the Intersensory: Body, Dance, and Communication 157
11 Electro-Mechanization and the Global City: Poetic Engineering and the Open Text 171
12 Memory: The Crux of Communication 191
13 History of the Poetic: A Major Aspect of the History of Communication 207
14 High Decibel Dialogue of the Electronic Fairground: Mediating Communication by Talking about It 222
15 The Ambivalence of the Poetic as Critique: Science Fiction and Fellini Films 242
16 Conclusion 261
Notes 277
Bibliography 305
Index 317
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