Paul A. Youngman

We Are the Machine: The Computer, the Internet, and Information in Contemporary German Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An investigation of attitudes toward -- and unease with -- Information Technology, as reflected in recent German-language literature.

Produktdetails

• Studies in German Literature L Nr.41
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• New
• Seitenzahl: 187
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781571133922
• ISBN-10: 1571133925
• Artikelnr.: 26156354

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Machines, Computers, and the Liberal Humanist Subject Losing
Ground to the Machine: Electronic Brains in the Works of Heinrich Hauser
and Friedrich Dürrenmatt Fearing the Machine -- Two Nightmares in the
1990s: Gerd Heidenreich's New Riddle of the Sphinx and Barbara Frischmuth's
Hidden Meaning Becoming the Machine: Günter Grass's and Erich Loest's
Virtual History, René Pollesch's Postdramatic Imaginings, and "Real"
Cyber-Relationships according to Christine Eichel and Daniel Glattauer
Conclusion: Questions to Ponder Bibliography Index