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Transmission and the Individual Remix
by
Tom McCarthy
Sub-titled "How Literature Works" this essay by the renown novelist is a provocative and entertaining work of postmodern theory that re-evaluates literature and literary meaning from Aeschylus to Kraftwerk. A VINTAGE EBOOK ORIGINAL.
Tom McCarthy is one of the most vital young voices in contemporary literature, and in this essay he identifies the signals that have been repea...more
Tom McCarthy is one of the most vital young voices in contemporary literature, and in this essay he identifies the signals that have been repea...more
ebook, 64 pages
Published
June 4th 2012
by Vintage
(first published May 22nd 2012)
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Transmission and the Individual Remix sets out to tune readers in to the signals that have been "pulsing, repeating, modulating in the airspace of literature" from as far back as Aeschylus and Ovid to our current era. Where one might see an innovative and groundbreaking literary work, Tom McCarthy sees the precedents that have echoed throughout the very human history of dissemination. In particular, McCarthy cites Ovid's portrait of the poet Orpheus as t...more
Transmission and the Individual Remix sets out to tune readers in to the signals that have been "pulsing, repeating, modulating in the airspace of literature" from as far back as Aeschylus and Ovid to our current era. Where one might see an innovative and groundbreaking literary work, Tom McCarthy sees the precedents that have echoed throughout the very human history of dissemination. In particular, McCarthy cites Ovid's portrait of the poet Orpheus as t...more
Not a book, really, more an article like those published in literary journals 40 years ago. Actually no: not at all like 40 years ago, easy reading, swishy fencing style, no footnotes, more like a blog, minus hyperlinks.
In an amazing "leçon de choses" he uses his medium to tell us his message, that the medium is the message. He takes us on a birdseye virtual tour of literature, from the Greeks to this postmodern (?) time. The troubadours wrote epic songs, Æschyllus and Shakespeare wrote plays, c...more
In an amazing "leçon de choses" he uses his medium to tell us his message, that the medium is the message. He takes us on a birdseye virtual tour of literature, from the Greeks to this postmodern (?) time. The troubadours wrote epic songs, Æschyllus and Shakespeare wrote plays, c...more
A short essay that using the mith of Orpheus and Kraftwerk trys to convey the difference between the sender, the meaning of the message and the listner. As a non mothertongue I had a little bir of difficulty in completely understanding this essay, but it was interesting.
Thanks to Netgalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for the preview
Thanks to Netgalley and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for the preview
If you want to learn How Fiction Works, then check out the James Wood book. But if you're interested in How *Literature* Works, this long essay provides invaluable insights. It starts where you'd expect, with Kraftwerk and Orpheus. McCarthy winds his way from the Ancient Greeks to Cervantes to Rilke to Burroughs's cut-ups, tracing the role of signals, transmission, reception, how writers speak through texts, and what constitutes a good remix. He demonstrates Blanchot's theory of how literature s...more
McCarthy decodes Culture's signals... Or tries to.
Full review here - Http://CultureMob.com/review-Tom-McCa...
Full review here - Http://CultureMob.com/review-Tom-McCa...
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Tom McCarthy — “English fiction’s new laureate of disappointment” (Time Out, September 2007) — is a writer and artist. He was born in 1969 and lives in a tower-block in London. Tom grew up in Greenwich, south London, and studied English at New College, Oxford. After a couple of years in Prague in the early 1990s, he lived in Amsterdam as literary editor of the local Time Out, and later worked in B...more
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