Technoromanticism : digital narrative, holism, and the romance of the real / Richard Coyne.

By:

Coyne, Richard

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0585123969
9780585123967
9780262339568
0262339560
0262531917
9780262531917

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technoromanticism.DDC classification:

303.48/33 21

LOC classification:

T58.5 .C687 1999eb

Other classification:

54.02

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Contents:

Introduction -- Unity: how it narratives attempt to transcend the material realm: digital utopias -- Cybernetic rapture -- Multiplicity: the empiricist tradition of realism, and its critics: the empiricist legacy -- The symbolic order -- Pragmatics of cyberspace -- Ineffability: how contemporary narratives of fractured identities challenge technoromanticism: Oedipus in cyberspace -- Schizophrenia and suspicion -- Technoromantic narratives.

Summary: The author explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communications to the claims of cyberspace to offer new realities. Populating these narratives are cyborgs, computerized agents, avatars and characters that have putative digital identities.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The author explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communications to the claims of cyberspace to offer new realities. Populating these narratives are cyborgs, computerized agents, avatars and characters that have putative digital identities.