Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCE STYLE -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 James Joyce and the 'Modern': Machines, Media, and the Mimetic -- 2 Art as Vivisection: The Encyclopaedic Mechanics of Menippean Satire -- 3 Electro-Mechanization, Communication, and the Poet as Engineer -- 4 Singing the Electro-Mechano-Chemical Body -- 5 Books, Machines, and Processes of Production and Consumption -- 6 The Machinic Maze of Mimesis: The Labyrinthine Dance of Mind and Machine -- 7 Mimicry, Memory, Mummery, and the Multiplying of Media -- 8 Secularizing the Sacred: The Art of Profane Illumination -- 9 Assembling and Tailoring a Modern Hermetic Techno-Cultural Allegory -- 10 The Rhythmatick of Our Eternal Geomater -- 11 The New Techno-Culture of Space-Time -- 12 Cultural Production and the Dynamic Mechanics of Quanta and the Chaosmos -- 13 The Relativities of Light, Colour, and Sensory Perception -- 14 Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Theall explores the role of science, mathematics, and technology in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. He argues that Joyce's paramodern poetic practice has important implications for a wide variety of subsequent cultural and theoretical movements.
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Joyce, James,-1882-1941-Technique. Joyce, James,-1882-1941.-Finnegans wake. Joyce, James,-1882-1941.-Ulysses. Literature and technology-Ireland-History-20th century. Modernism (Literature)-Ireland. Fiction-Technique.