دانلود کتاب Narrative Machine : The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel (Narrative Theory and Culture)

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Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. The Making of the Monster Machine
II. Naturalism, Modernism, Postmodernism
III. The State of the Critical Field, and the Shape of Things to Come
Part I Naturalism and the Mechanical Monster
1 Zola’s Monster Machines
I. The Mechanical Monsters of Zola’s “Experimental Novel”
II. “Irrational and Supernatural” Explanations
III. Bursting out of Narrative Control
IV. Under the Deluge, into the Abyss, off the Rails
V. The Human Cost of the Zolian Machine
VI. The Critical Fortunes of the Rougon-Macquart
2 Mechanical Monsters in England and America
I. The “Risky Business” of English Naturalism
II. The “New-Fashioned” Agricultural Machines of The Mayor of Casterbridge
III. The “Iron Determinism” of Tess of the D’Urbervilles
IV. American Naturalism: Frank Norris’s Monster Machines
V. The Voracious Gold Mine of McTeague
VI. The Monstrous Ramifications of The Octopus
VII. The Human Cost of The Octopus
3 The Machined Aesthetics of Dreiser, Crane, Moore, Wharton, and Gissing
I. Unmiraculous Machines
II. Sister Carrie’s Machine-Made Beauty
III. The Factory Aesthetics of Crane, Moore, and Wharton
IV. Gissing and the Literary Machine
Part II Modernism versus the Machine
4 Lawrence and the Monster Machine
I. “Zolaesque Tragedy” in The Rainbow
II. Machine Breaker
III. Generating the Rainbow
IV. Escaping the Machine Apocalypse: Women in Love
V. The Fascistic Mechanics of The Plumed Serpent
5 Joyce’s Utopian Machine
I. Stephen Dedalus’s Malevolent Machines
II. Ulysses versus the Monster Machine
III. Ulysses-Bloom’s “Infernal Machine”
IV. Underwriting Anarchy: The “Mythical Method”
V. Undoing the Tyranny of The Odyssey
VI. Joyce’s Utopian Machine
6 Against the Quotidian Machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust
I. The Postwar Machines of Mrs. Dalloway
II. Holding the World Together: Clock, Motorcar, Airplane
III. The Wounding Machines of The Sun Also Rises
IV. Breaking Down
V. Automobiles, Airplanes, and the Telephonic In Search of Lost Time
VI. The “Gesture of a Bomb Dropped upon Us”
Part III Postmodernism: Living with the Machine
7 The New Sunshine: Ballard, Vonnegut, and Dick
I. From Modernist Machines to “Autogeddon” in Crash
II. The Real as a Fiction of Security
III. Breakfast of Champions and the Synthetic Apocalypse
IV. Deus ex Machina
V. Atomic God in a Spray Can: The Infinite Synthetic Realities of Ubik
8 The Digital and Atomic Plots of Pynchon and DeLillo
I. The Postmodern Condition and the Digital Computer
II. The Binary Code of The Crying of Lot 49
III. “A Plot Has Been Mounted against You”
IV. Death Sentences
V. The Plutonic Number of Underworld
VI. Atomic Baseball
VII. “Does the Power of Transcendence Linger?”
9 The Machinery of Liberation: Georges Perec
I. In the Ruins of the Future
II. E: The Machine-Made Void
III. W: The Origin of the Lipogram
IV. W: The Camps
V. New Life: A User’s Manual
V+I. For Perec, Another V
Works Cited
Index