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Ploughshares to Processors: An ecological critique of technology in post-war Finnish and American fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ploughshares to Processors: An ecological critique of technology in post-war Finnish and American fiction./
Author:	Wright, Evan Patrick.
Description:	174 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-08A(E).
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10077415
ISBN:	9781339588797

Ploughshares to Processors: An ecological critique of technology in post-war Finnish and American fiction.
Wright, Evan Patrick.

Ploughshares to Processors: An ecological critique of technology in post-war Finnish and American fiction. - 174 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016.

This is a comparative study of Finnish and American fiction written after 1942. The dissertation explores through close reading of literary fiction the composite symbols of human, technology, and non-human natural world. The primary objects of study are the Finnish novels Ennen paivanlaskua ei voi (2000) by Johanna Sinisalo, Janiksen vuosi (1975) by Arto Paasilinna, and Taalla pohjantahden alla (1959) by Vaino Linna, and the American novels Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) by Philip K. Dick, and The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) by Edward Abbey. Analysis of these novels and others demonstrates that since the 1950s, authors from both the United States and Finland make use of closely related composite symbols to represent changing cultural attitudes toward the non-human natural world. Particular among these symbols are recurring images of distinct technologies---electrically powered information machines, fossil fuel powered transportation machines, pre- and post-industrial resource extraction and production tools and machines and war machines---that either precipitate change or hinder change. The dissertation also defines "symbolic ecology" as a semiotic rhizome: in composite symbols, individual images are important only for how they (re)contextualize other images in the same or related grouping, or ecology, of symbols.

ISBN: 9781339588797Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
Literature.

Ploughshares to Processors: An ecological critique of technology in post-war Finnish and American fiction.
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