Copying machines : taking notes for the automaton / Catherine Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--Europe--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Deconstruction.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

French literature--18th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Robots in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In readings of texts by Lafayette, Molière, Laclos, and La Bruyère-and in a chapter on the eighteenth-century inventor of automatons, Jacques Vaucanson-Catherine Liu provides a fascinating account of ways in which the automaton and the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien régime France and structure key moments of the canonical literature and criticism of the period."Copying Machines establishes Liu's reputation in all her diverse fields as a leading thinker/writer. Liu invokes the automaton as ironic departure from the machine histories of media-technologization." -Laurence A

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Doing It Like a Machine; 2 "What's the Difference?"; 3 The Princess of Clèves Makes a Faux Pas; 4 Getting Ahead with Machines? The Cases of Jacques Vaucanson and Thérèse des Hayes; 5 Don Juan Breaks All His Promises but Manages to Keep One Appointment (with History); 6 De Man on Rousseau: The Reading Machine; 7 Friends: Dangerous Liaisons; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-218) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9113-4

OCLC:

476094925