Discourse Networks, 1800/1900

by Friedrich A. Kittler

Book Overview

This is a highly original book about the connections between historical moment, social structure, technology, communications systems, and what is said and thought using these systems - notably literature. The author focuses on the differences between "discourse networks" in 1800 and 1900, in the process developing a new analysis of the shift from romanticism to modernism. The work might be classified as a German equivalent to the New Historicism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804720991
• ISBN13: 9780804720991
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"