The Mechanic Muse

by Hugh Kenner

Book Overview

One of America's most celebrated critics here brings his customary wit and erudition to bear on a particularly provocative theme: the response of literary Modernism to a changing environment wrought by technology. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Hugh Kenner, observes, technology "tended to engulf people gradually, coercing behavior they were not aware of." The Modernist writers were sensitive to technological change, however, and throughout...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041429
• ISBN13: 9780195041422
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"