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1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Book -- Introduction: An Anamorphic Projection of the Title -- Reconciling Literary Study with Materiality -- Technotexts as a Focus -- Technotexts beyond Modernism -- Baroque as the Other Focus -- Baroque Reason as Modernity's Madness -- Notes -- Prologue -- Choice -- Monads: A Harmonic Subjectivity for Technotextuality -- Thinking into Our Environment -- The Double-Folded Monad -- Allegory as Monadic Communication -- A Monadic Model of Biography -- Folding In and Unfolding Out |
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Containing Differences Harmoniously -- Empathy through Allegory -- Notes -- Mirrors -- Mise en Abyme: Mirrorish Dimensions Down to the Code -- Repetition in the Hall of Mirrors -- The Mirrorish Disrupts Perspective -- Mirrorish Dimensions Turn Paratext to Text -- Parsing Narrative to Read Code -- Reading as Reverse Engineering -- Code as Representational Layer -- Human and Computer Coauthors -- Notes -- Illusion -- Trompe l'Oeil: Blending Media and Synesthetic Knowing -- Breaking the Frame -- Trompe l'Oeil's Persistent Reality -- Play, Opacity and Synesthesia as Baroque Knowing |
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Approximate Translations across Languages and Media -- Realizing Illusions that Usurp Reality -- Unity through Synesthesia and Allusion -- Illusion as the Veil that Hides Nothing -- Notes -- Surface -- Minoring: Baroque Cosmology and Criticizing from Within -- Deperiodizing the Baroque -- Baroque Structures Include Noncompliance -- The Major and Minor Strategies -- The Artificiality of Language -- Perspectives Fragment Master Narratives -- Valuing the Surface of Representation -- Notes -- Code -- Collections and Navels: The Horror Vacui of the Database -- Surviving the Horror Vacui |
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Collecting and the Rise of the Object -- Exceeding Categories, Navel Reading and the Polyhistor's Wunderkammer -- Incomplete Inventories and Sensed Presence -- Nonhuman Presence and Déjà Vu -- Access Denied and the Pleasure of Irresolution -- Notes -- Coda -- Note -- References -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
An analysis of the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in technotexts, reframing critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Analyses of other authors are investigated alongside other media that have adopted baroque aesthetic tropes including digital media, film, visual art and interface design |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Aesthetics, Baroque.
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Aesthetics in literature.
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COMPUTERS / Digital Media / General
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Aesthetics, Baroque
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Aesthetics in literature
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789381665 |
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9781789381665 |
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9781789381672 |
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1789381673 |
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