The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in AmericaOxford University Press, 24.02.2000 - 430 Seiten For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines the difference between the "pastoral" and "progressive" ideals which characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society. This new edition is appearing in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Marx's classic text. It features a new afterword by the author on the process of writing this pioneering book, a work that all but founded the discipline now called American Studies. |
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... fact, this is not, strictly speaking, a book about literature; it is about the region of culture where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination — we may call them “cultural symbols” — meet. To ...
... fact, this is not, strictly speaking, a book about literature; it is about the region of culture where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination — we may call them “cultural symbols” — meet. To ...
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... fact the question might easily be put aside, as it often is, simply by asserting that “literature” embodies a more sensitive and precise, a “higher,” mode of perception. To do that, however, is to miss a chance of defining the complex ...
... fact the question might easily be put aside, as it often is, simply by asserting that “literature” embodies a more sensitive and precise, a “higher,” mode of perception. To do that, however, is to miss a chance of defining the complex ...
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... fact that the same impulse generates such wholly different states of mind? While in the culture at large it is the starting point for infantile wish-fulfillment dreams, a diffuse nostalgia, and a naïve, anarchic primitivism, yet it also ...
... fact that the same impulse generates such wholly different states of mind? While in the culture at large it is the starting point for infantile wish-fulfillment dreams, a diffuse nostalgia, and a naïve, anarchic primitivism, yet it also ...
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... fact is that Hawthorne has succeeded in expressing a great deal. True, there are no memorable revelations to be got ... facts, trying to tap the subterranean flow of thought and feeling and then, suddenly, the startling 14 THE MACHINE IN ...
... fact is that Hawthorne has succeeded in expressing a great deal. True, there are no memorable revelations to be got ... facts, trying to tap the subterranean flow of thought and feeling and then, suddenly, the startling 14 THE MACHINE IN ...
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... fact that variants of the Sleepy Hollow episode have appeared everywhere in American writing since the 1840's. We recall the scene in Walden where Thoreau is sitting rapt in a revery and then, penetrating his woods like the scream of a ...
... fact that variants of the Sleepy Hollow episode have appeared everywhere in American writing since the 1840's. We recall the scene in Walden where Thoreau is sitting rapt in a revery and then, penetrating his woods like the scream of a ...
Inhalt
3 | |
34 | |
The Garden | 73 |
The Machine | 145 |
Two Kingdoms of Force | 227 |
Epilogue The Garden of Ashes | 354 |
AFTERWORD | 367 |
NOTES | 387 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 407 |
INDEX | 409 |
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2000 |
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