Moral Tales and Meditations: Technological Parables and Refractions

Author:   Michael Joyce ,  Helene Cixous
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9780791451557


Pages:   165
Publication Date:   27 September 2001
Format:   Hardback
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Provocative essays and short tales that explore the effect of technology and new media on our everyday lives.

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Author:   Michael Joyce ,  Helene Cixous
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.354kg
ISBN:  

9780791451557


ISBN 10:   0791451550
Pages:   165
Publication Date:   27 September 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Joyce 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


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Michael 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.

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