The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature 9781138262195

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Название: The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature
ISBN: 9781138262195
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Литература: история и критика

Литературоведение: Общие вопросы

История естественных наук

ISBN-10: 1138262196
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 222
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 15.11.2016
Серия: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity
Язык: English
Размер: 156 x 231 x 21
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, SCIENCE / History
Основная тема: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
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Поставляется из: Европейский союз
Описание: The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the collection places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic, historical, philosophical, and scientific contexts. While no single theory or perspective conscribes the volume, taken as a whole the collection helps correct an assumption that frequently emerges from a post-Enlightenment perspective: that these animated beings are by definition exemplars of the new science, or that they point necessarily to mans triumphant relationship to technology. On the contrary, automata in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem only partly and sporadically to function as embodiments of an emerging mechanistic or materialist worldview. Renaissance automata were just as likely not to confirm for viewers a hypothesis about the man-machine. Instead, these essays show, automata were often a source of wonder, suggestive of magic, proof of the uncannily animating effect of poetry-indeed, just as likely to unsettle the divide between man and divinity as that between man and matter.

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