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Tables of Contents for Reading Matters
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Illustrations
ix
2
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
28
Joseph Tabbi
Michael Wutz
PART I MODERNIST NARRATING MACHINES
29
70
1 Magic Media Mountain: Technology and the Umbildungsroman
29
24
Geoffrey Winthrop-Young
2 Archaic Mechanics, Anarchic Meaning: Malcolm Lowry and the Technology of Narrative
53
23
Michael Wutz
3 Writing Machines: Technology and the Failures of Representation in the Works of Franz Kafka
76
23
Klaus Benesch
PART II MATERIALITIES OF READING
99
58
4 Strange Attractors in Absalom, Absalom!
99
20
Jo Alyson Parker
5 Cinema and the Paralysis of Perception: Robbe-Grillet, Condillac, Virilio
119
17
Linda Brigham
6 Exploring Technographies: Chaos Diagrams and Oulipian Writing as Virtual Signs
136
21
Paul A. Harris
PART III POSTMODERNISMS: THE NOVEL IN THE ERA OF MEDIA MULTIPLICITY
157
70
7 Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War
157
16
Friedrich Kittler
8 Mediality in Vineland and Neuromancer
173
20
John Johnston
9 No More Heroes: The Routinization of the Epic in Techno-Thrillers
193
34
Piotr Siemion
PART IV THE BOOK IN BITS: HYPERTEXT AND VIRTUAL NARRATIVE
227
66
10 The Literary Canon in the Age of Its Technological Obsolescence
227
23
William Paulson
11 Virtual Textuality
250
19
Lynn Wells
12 No War Machine
269
24
Stuart Moulthrop
Works Cited
293
18
About the Contributors
311
2
Index
313