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One of America's most celebrated critics here brings his customary wit and erudition to bear on a particularly provocative 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 their works are reflections of this fact. Kenner shows, for example, how Eliot's lines "One thinks of all the hands/That are raising dingy shades/In a thousand furnished rooms" suggest the advent of the alarm clock and, beyond that, what the clocks "the new world of the commuter, in which a principal event was waking up in the morning under the obligation to get yourself somewhere else, and arrive there on time . In fascinating examinations of Pound, Joyce, and Beckett, in addition to Eliot, Kenner looks at how inventions as various as the linotype, the typewriter, the subway, and the computer altered the way the world was viewed and depicted. Whether discussing Joyce's acute awareness of the nuances of typesetting or Beckett's experimen

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Author

Kenner, Hugh. cn

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195041422

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.6 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14