Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton

by Catherine Liu

Explores literary theory's fear of and fascination with the mechanical.

Anxieties about fixing the absolute difference between the human being and the mechanical replica, the automaton, are as old as the first appearance of the machine itself. Exploring these anxieties and the efforts they prompted, this book opens a window on one of the most significant, if subtle, ideological battles waged on behalf of the human against...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081663503X
• ISBN13: 9780816635030
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"