Rereading the Machine in the Garden
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Rereading the Machine in the Garden

Nature and Technology in American Culture

  1. 249 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rereading the Machine in the Garden

Nature and Technology in American Culture

About this book

»The Machine in the Garden« gilt als GrĂŒndungstext der Amerikastudien als wissenschaftliche Disziplin. Die BeitrĂ€ger des Sammelbands unterziehen das dort proklamierte SpannungsverhĂ€ltnis zwischen Natur und Technik einer RelektĂŒre. Sie untersuchen industrielle, bĂŒrokratische und digitale »GĂ€rten« in Film und Literatur und beleuchten deren Funktion vor verschiedenen kulturhistorischen HintergrĂŒnden.

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Publisher
Campus Verlag
Year
2014
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9783593425030

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction: Rereading The Machine in the Garden Eric Erbacher, Nicole Maruo- Schröder, Florian Sedlmeier
  3. The Politics of Imaging the Machine in the Garden in Antebellum Factory Literature Katja Kanzler
  4. Eden Refound( ed): Post Civil War Literary Gardening Kirsten Twelbeck
  5. The Dinosaur in the Garden: From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park Susanne Hamscha
  6. Rural Electrification plus Government Power: Leo Marx, the Materialist Dialectic, and Power and the Land Marlon Lieber
  7. Putting Machines into Gardens: Walter De Maria’s Lighning Fields, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and the Pastoral Imagination Laura Bieger
  8. The Machine in the Indigenous Garden: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Garden in the Dunes Christa Grewe- Volpp
  9. Small Town Love on the Big Screen: The Trope of the Machine in the Garden in Hollywood Romantic Comedies Klara Stephanie SzlezĂĄk
  10. The Garden in the Machine: Myth and Symbol in the Digital Age Dietmar Meinel
  11. The Neoliberal Machine in the Bureaucratic Garden: Pastoral States of Mind in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King James Dorson
  12. Epilogue: Politics and Culture in The Machine in the Garden Alan Trachtenberg
  13. Notes on Contributors
  14. Index

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