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OverviewProvocative essays and short tales that explore the effect of technology and new media on our everyday lives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael Joyce , Helene CixousPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.236kg ISBN: 9780791451564ISBN 10: 0791451569 Pages: 165 Publication Date: 01 August 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgments MORAL TALES AND MEDITATIONS Colossus Reflection FIRST MEDITATION At Home with a New Thing Storm Tossed White Moths SECOND MEDITATION Time Zones Speed of Light A Man on the Moon THIRD MEDITATION Memory Picnic Seraph FOURTH MEDITATION Recursion, Virtuality, and Simulacrum Another Land FIFTH MEDITATION Amusement Parks Saint Someone SIXTH MEDITATION Space (and Time) THREE LAST PIECES Real Life The Persistence of the Ordinary The Future of Fiction and Other Large Phrases Afterword by Helene Cixous Works CitedReviewsJoyce alerts us to his intentions: the tales are parables of technology; combined with the meditations, they constitute a theoretical narrative-stories that are simultaneously creative fictions and critical reflections on the form of the story. They are also really good stories. That the short story is a living genre, undergoing significant transformation in the era of new media, is obvious. Joyce is one of the figures with considerable influence on these developments. - Gregory Ulmer, author of Teletheory: Grammatology in the Age of Video Michael Joyce is a subliminal explorer-he sets off to explore mental regions that are generally neglected, as if they were forests or deserted islands... These absolutely original tales are at once idiomatic and unclassifiable. Slow, listless, yet incredibly speedy. Ripples allude to the deepest depths. This is the secret of great poetical writing. - Helene Cixous, from the Afterword In this work, as in his hyperfictions, Joyce delivers mini-epiphany after mini-epiphany, whether in the thinking of his characters or simply in the joyous rightness of his prose. He is the unmatched aesthetic authority for thinking about writing as a technology, and Moral Tales and Meditations offers yet more evidence of his genius. - Brooks Landon, author of Science Fiction after 1900: From the Steam Man to the Stars Author InformationMichael Joyce is Associate Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of several books, including Othermindedness: The Emergence of Network Culture; Of Two Minds: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics; and The War Outside Ireland. He has also written many hypertexts, including Twilight, A Symphony and afternoon, a story. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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