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Beyond the Word
Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication
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Published/Copyright:
1995
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Beyond the Word provides an implicit critique of postmodernism, redefining it as a further radical stage of modernism.
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Theall Donald E. :
DONALD E. THEALL was Molson Professor at McGill University before becoming President and Vice-Chancellor of Trent University (1980-7), where he is now University Professor Emeritus. His books include The Medium is the Rear View Mirror: Understanding McLuhan and Studies in Canadian Communications (co-edited with G.J. Robinson).
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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A Note on Acronyms and Reference Style
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1. The Poetic Body in the New Culture of Time and Space: Communication, Art, and Technology in the Twentieth Century
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2. The Micro as the Medium and the Message: Synaesthesia, the Harmonization of the Senses, and the Mechanics of Art
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3. From Sense to Nonsense: Gesture, the Body, and Communication
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4. The Joyce Era: Modernity and Poetics
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5. The Book, the Press, Eisenstein, and Joyce: Changing Relations in Culture, Technology, and Communication
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6. Beyond Media
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7. The Comic, Wit, and Laughter: Dramatic Engineering of Communication
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8. A Dramatic Theory of Communication
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9. Communication and Comedy: Negativity, Satire, and Secular Communion
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10. Tactility and the lntersensory: Body, Dance, and Communication
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11. Electro-Mechanization and the Global City: Poetic Engineering and the Open Text
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12. Memory: The Crux of Communication
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13. History of the Poetic: A Major Aspect of the History of Communication
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14. High Decibel Dialogue of the Electronic Fairground: Mediating Communication by Talking about It
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15. The Ambivalence of the Poetic as Critique: Science Fiction and Fellini Films
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16. Conclusion
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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December 15, 1995
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9781487574956
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352
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
