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Rereading the Machine in the Garden
Nature and Technology in American Culture
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Rereading the Machine in the Garden
Nature and Technology in American Culture
About this book
»The Machine in the Garden« gilt als Gründungstext der Amerikastudien als wissenschaftliche Disziplin. Die Beiträger des Sammelbands unterziehen das dort proklamierte Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Natur und Technik einer Relektüre. Sie untersuchen industrielle, bürokratische und digitale »Gärten« in Film und Literatur und beleuchten deren Funktion vor verschiedenen kulturhistorischen Hintergründen.
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Yes, you can access Rereading the Machine in the Garden by Eric Erbacher,Nicole Maruo-Schröder,Florian Sedlmeier in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & English Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction: Rereading The Machine in the Garden Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo- Schröder, Florian Sedlmeier
- The Politics of Imaging the Machine in the Garden in Antebellum Factory Literature Katja Kanzler
- Eden Refound( ed): Post Civil War Literary Gardening Kirsten Twelbeck
- The Dinosaur in the Garden: From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park Susanne Hamscha
- Rural Electrification plus Government Power: Leo Marx, the Materialist Dialectic, and Power and the Land Marlon Lieber
- Putting Machines into Gardens: Walter De Maria’s Lighning Fields, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and the Pastoral Imagination Laura Bieger
- The Machine in the Indigenous Garden: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Garden in the Dunes Christa Grewe- Volpp
- Small Town Love on the Big Screen: The Trope of the Machine in the Garden in Hollywood Romantic Comedies Klara Stephanie Szlezák
- The Garden in the Machine: Myth and Symbol in the Digital Age Dietmar Meinel
- The Neoliberal Machine in the Bureaucratic Garden: Pastoral States of Mind in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King James Dorson
- Epilogue: Politics and Culture in The Machine in the Garden Alan Trachtenberg
- Notes on Contributors
- Index