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Literature, Technology, and Modernity, 1860-2000.
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| 著者・編者 | Daly, Nicholas, |
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| 出版社 | (Cambridge University Press, UK) |
| 出版年月 | 2009 |
| ページ数 | 172 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜L25-22781＞ |
解説
Industrial modernity takes it as self-evident that there is a difference between people and machines, but the corollary of this has been a recurring fantasy about the erasure of that difference. The central scenario in this fantasy is the crash, sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Nicholas Daly considers the way human/machine encounters have been imagined from the 1860s on, arguing that such scenes dramatise the modernisation of subjectivity. Daly begins with Victorian railway melodramas in which an individual is rescued from the path of the train just in time, and ends with J. G. Ballard's novel Crash in which people seek out such collisions. Daly argues that these collisions dramatise the relationship between the individual and the industrial society, and suggests that the pleasures of fictional suspense help people to assimilate the speeding up of everyday life. This book will be of interest to scholars of modernism, literature and film.