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Narrative data, informational poetics: Modernist literature and the emergence of cybernetic thought.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Narrative data, informational poetics: Modernist literature and the emergence of cybernetic thought./
Author:	Love, Heather Allison.
Description:	242 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-09A(E).
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3702556
ISBN:	9781321739497

Narrative data, informational poetics: Modernist literature and the emergence of cybernetic thought.
Love, Heather Allison.

Narrative data, informational poetics: Modernist literature and the emergence of cybernetic thought. - 242 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2015.

This project investigates the twentieth century's burgeoning communication networks and information systems. I trace how modernist authors strived to make sense of the increasing amount of "data" in public circulation during the early decades of the twentieth-century. Their innovations with literary form, I argue, are imbricated in the same cultural contexts that gave rise to cybernetics---a techno-scientific field of high-speed, high-volume data processing that was officially codified as a discipline in 1948 by MIT mathematician Norbert Wiener.

ISBN: 9781321739497Subjects--Topical Terms:

537498
Literature.

Narrative data, informational poetics: Modernist literature and the emergence of cybernetic thought.
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